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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image taking device and a control method for image taking, and in particular, to an image taking device and a control method for image taking capable of detecting a face in an image. 2. Description of the Related Art A technique which detects human faces in photographed images to use the data of the detected faces to various applications has been disclosed. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-87083 describes a technique which displays warning messages according to results output from an object detecting device or automatically changes the controlling parameters in an imaging unit. As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-87083, to keep the object detecting device operating all the time causes power consumption required for operation and delay in operation due to a control load, which reduces the number of images that can be photographed and increases discomfort of operation caused for users.

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Abstract We studied both experimentally and theoretically the influence of the distance between adjacent cut-wire-pair layers on the magnetic and the electric resonances in the microwave-frequency regime. Besides the dependence on the separation between cut-wire pairs, along the electric-field direction, the electric resonance strongly depends on the distance between cut-wire-pair layers, while the magnetic resonance is almost unchanged. This contrast can be understood by the difference in the distribution of induced-charge density and in the direction of the induced current between the electric and magnetic resonances. A simple model is proposed to simulate our experimental results and the simulation results are in good agreement with the experiment. This result provides important information in obtaining left-handed behavior when the cut-wire pairs are combined with the continuous wire. ] demonstrated the existence of LHM consisting of an array of split-ring resonators (SRRs) and continuous wires for the first time. Following this seminal paper, numerous reports, both theoretical and experimental, confirmed the existence of LHMs and their main properties. In regular LHMs, to apply the uniform-effective-medium theory in determining the effective electric permittivity ε and magnetic permeability µ, the size of the unit cell must be much smaller than the wavelength [4 ]. Therefore, the development of geometry and fabrication technique is still an area of significant effort, especially for LHMs operating at optical frequencies. The design and construction of magnetic and electric components play a central role, mainly a magnetic one. At present, the search for magnetic systems with an effectively negative µ up to the optical range remains an actual task. Besides SRRs, several different structures have been employed to provide a negative µ [6 In essence, the CWP is an SRR with two gaps flattened in the wire-pair arrangement. This structure also exhibits both magnetic and electric resonances as in the SRR structures. By tuning the magnetic and/or the electric resonances, it might be possible to obtain the LHM using only an array of CWPs. Although Dolling et al.[12 ] have theoretically studied the dependence of two resonances on the separation of neighboring pairs along the E direction on the cut-wire pair sheet (intra-layer distance d). It was found that the low-frequency edge of electric-resonance strongly depends on the separation of neighboring pairs [also see Fig. 1(b)]. However, it is very difficult to overlap two resonances to obtain the LH behavior using only an array of CWPs. Recent experiments have revealed that an efficient approach to achieve the LH behavior by employing the CWPs is to combine them with continuous wires [15 ]. While the magnetic resonance frequency of CWP is of primary interest, the electric-resonance frequency also plays an important role when combined with the continuous wire. As is well known, the plasma frequency of the combined structure is much lower than that of the continuous wire alone [16 ]. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the electric-resonance frequency of CWP and its contribution to the effective permittivity of the combined structure. Fig. 1. (Color online) (a) Geometry of the cut-wire pair with the length of cut wire is l=5.5 mm and the width w=1.0 mm. t1 is the thickness of the PCB board and t2 that for the CU cut-wire. (b) Periods of cut-wire pairs. In this work, we studied both experimentally and theoretically the influence of the distance between CWP layers (inter-layer distance az [also see Fig. 1(b)]) on the magnetic- and the electric-resonance frequencies. It was found that electric resonance strongly depends on the distance between layers, but the magnetic resonance is nearly unchanged. When the distance approaches a certain value, the magnetic resonance is degraded by the electric one or the two resonances kill each other. 2. Experiment The geometrical structure of CWP is depicted in Fig. 1, similar to Refs. [11 ]. The CWP structures were fabricated on both sides of the printed-copper board (PCB) with a copper thickness of 36 µm. The thickness of the dielectric PCB is 0.4 mm with a dielectric constant of 4.8. The period of CWP in the x-y plane is kept constant to be ax=3.5 mm and ay=7.0 mm. The length l and the width w of CWP are 5.5 and 1.0 mm, respectively. The periodicity along the z direction was obtained by stacking a number of identically patterned boards with the distance between CWP layers varied from 1.0 to 5.0 mm. We performed the transmission measurements in free space, using a Hewlett-Packard E8362B network analyzer connected to microwave standard-gain horn antennas. 3. Results and discussion It is well known that the CWP structure exhibits both magnetic and electric resonances similar to the case of SRR structures. Figure 2 shows the measured transmission spectra of the CWP structures with different numbers of layers, where the distance between layers is 1.0 mm. Clearly, there are two band gaps in the transmission spectra, similar to that of Ref. [16 ]. The two band gaps are separated by a certain amount of frequency. It is confirmed that the first band gap located at 13.4–14.4 GHz is due to the magnetic resonance, providing a negative magnetic permeability, and the second band gap starting at ~17 GHz is from the electric one, providing a negative electric permittivity. When the number of layers increases, the two resonances become more evident, but interestingly the separation between them is invariant. In this case, by combining the CWP with the continuous wire, it is better to obtain the LH behavior [15 Fig. 2. (Color online) Measured transmission spectra of the cut-wire-pair structure with different numbers of layers in the propagation direction, where the distance between layers is kept 1.0 mm. Figure 3(a) shows the measured transmission spectra of various CWP structures with two layers, in which the period of CWP in the x-y plane is kept constant to be ax=3.5 mm and ay=7.0 mm, while in the z direction the distance between CWP layers varies from 1.0 to 5.0 mm. Clearly, the low-frequency edge of electric-resonance band is shifted to a lower frequency as the distance increases between CWP layers, but the magnetic-resonance frequency is practically unchanged. This indicates that the separation between the two resonances is reduced as the lattice constant az increases. One might argue that, if the distance between CWP layers increases, the coupling between layers is decreased and, consequently, the transmission in the region between two resonances is reduced in strength. Although this effect can explain the reduction of transmission between the two gaps, the observed red-shift of the low-frequency edge of electric resonance is not elucidated completely. Very interesting results are obtained when az increases until it reaches 3.0 mm as the separation between two resonances is almost destroyed as shown in Fig. 3. This suggests two possible scenarios. Firstly, the electric and the magnetic resonances overlap in the frequency region between 14 and 15 GHz. If the two resonances overlap, it means that both ε and µ are negative; hence, there must be a transmission band in this frequency regime. However, if there is no transmission band found, this implies that the two resonances cannot overlap. The second scenario is where the two resonances might cancel each other. It is similar to that in Ref. [10 ], where Zhou et al. studied the dependence of the separation between the intra-layer CWPs along the E direction. This effect will degrade or even destroy the LH behavior when the CWP is combined with the continuous wire. The dependence of the electric resonance on the distance between layers is also examined for a CWP structure with three layers as shown in Fig. 3(b). The observed result is consistent with that of the two-layer CWP structure. Fig. 3. (Color online) Measured transmission spectra of various cut-wire-pair structures; (a) two and (b) three layers. The period of cut-wire pair in the x-y plane is kept constant to be ax=3.5 mm and ay=7.0 mm; while the distance between layers is varied from 1.0 to 4.0 mm. One possible explanation on the observed result is that the shift of the low-frequency edge of electric-resonance band might be due to the influence of misalignment between the CWP boards along the propagation direction. This misalignment is achieved by shifting the CWP boards along the H direction with a deviation δ of 0.5 mm as shown in Fig. 4(a). To examine the potential effect of the misalignment between layers on the shift of the low-frequency edge of electric resonance, the transmission spectra of the misaligned CWP boards were measured and displayed in Fig. 4(b). For this study, the distance between layers is kept at 1.0 mm and δ=0.5 mm (half the width of cut-wire). Clearly, the band gaps between the magnetic and the electric resonances are nearly unchanged. This means that the electric resonance of CWP is not influenced by misalignment between CWP boards. Aydin et al. [19 ] also investigated the effect of misalignment in the SRR structures on the magnetic and the electric resonances. Thus, these results strongly suggest that the shift of the low-frequency edge of electric resonance observed in Fig. 3 is not caused by the misalignment of the CWP boards. Gay-Balmaz and Martin [20 ] also theoretically studied this fact for the SRR structure and pointed out that the inter-layer separation plays a more important role enhancing the coupling between SRRs than the misalignment of boards. The influence of the distance between CWP layers on the resonances was also theoretically studied. In our theoretical study, we employed a similar model proposed by Zhou et al. [10 ]. In the present paper, however, the model is realistically elaborated. We assume that the electric field of the incident radiation is along the length of a rectangular metallic stripe with length l, width w and thickness tf, and the x-, the y- and the z-axis are in the direction of the width, the length, and the thickness, respectively, of the rectangular metallic stripe. Therefore, E=Eoŷ, where Eo is the amplitude of applied electric field by the incident electromagnetic wave. Since the charge density varies along the y-direction, the charge density ρ=ρ(y) and the current density are given by where σ is the electrical conductivity of the metallic stripe and α is a proportionality constant, which will be determined later. The first term in the rightmost side corresponds to the ordinary current density arising from the applied field and the second term is the current density driven by the gradient of induced charge density. By applying the continuity condition we can obtain ∇·J+∂ρ∂t=∂J∂y+∂ρ∂t=−αd2ρdy2+∂ρ∂t=0. (2) Assuming that ∂ρ∂t=−ωρ , where ω is the angular frequency of the incident wave. The differential equation, which determines the charge density, is d2ρdy2+ωαρ=0. (3) From now on, the time dependence of the field and current can be ignored without loss of the generality. Since the charge density is antisymmetric about the center of the metallic stripe along the y-axis, the charge density can be written as ρ=ρosin(ωαy) (4) and the current density J=σEoŷ−αρoωαcos(ωαy)ŷ, (5) where ŷ is the unit vector along y-axis. Since the charge distribution and the current density are entirely confined inside the metallic stripe, multiplying r by the continuity equation [Eq. (2)] and integrating over the volume of the metallic stripe, we can get the following expression: ∫r[∇·J+∂ρ∂t]d3r=∫Jd3r+∂p∂t=0, (6) where p≡∫rρd3r is the dipole moment of the charge distribution. After some calculations, we obtain ρ=ρosin(πly), (7) and J=4αρol[1−π4cos(πly)]ŷ. (8) From these sources we can calculated the electric and the magnetic fields produced by 21×21 CWPs by directly applying Coulomb’s law and Biot-Savart’s law, respectively. Since these fields are periodic along the x and the y direction and the electric and the magnetic energies are symmetric about the origin, we calculate the fields only in the first quadrant confined by ax×ay and 0≤z≤25 cm. The effective capacitance Ceff and inductance Leff are obtained from the following relations, UE=12∫εE2dv=Q22Ceff (9) and UB=12∫B2μdv=12LeffI2. (10) The above electric and magnetic energies were obtained for the electric and the magnetic resonances separately by assuming that the currents of the cut-wire pair flow in the same and opposite directions, respectively. Finally, the electric and magnetic resonance frequencies are ωe=1Le,effCe,eff (11) and ωm=1Lm,effCm,eff, (12) respectively. The calculational results are displayed in Fig. 5. The magnetic resonance frequency does not change appreciably with the distance between cut-wire-pair layers (az), while the electric one changes significantly. As az approaches 4 mm, the electric resonance frequency keeps decreasing and reaches the magnetic resonance frequency. Then the electric-resonance frequency increases further with increasing az. These calculational results successfully reproduce the experimental results. The reason for the variance of ωe and the invariance of ωm with az can be understood by the difference in the distribution of induced charge density and in the direction of the induced current between electric and magnetic resonances. For the magnetic resonance the induced charge distribution on a metallic stripe is opposite of that on the counter metallic stripe in the same CWP. Hence, the electric field is mostly confined in the region between the two metallic stripes and thus the effective capacitance is determined by the CWP itself. The magnetic fields are also mostly concentrated in the region between two metallic stripes in CWP. Therefore, both the electric and magnetic energies do not vary with az, resulting in a constant magnetic resonance frequency independent of az. Our calculational results confirm this argument. For the electric resonance, on the other hand, the induced-charge distribution does not produce a significant electric field in the region between the two metallic stripes and thus the effective capacitance is determined by the two adjacent metallic stripes in different CWPs. The magnetic fields are also mostly concentrated in the region between PCBs. Therefore, both electric and magnetic energies vary with az, resulting in a strong dependence of the low-frequency edge of electric resonance on az. Fig. 5. Calculated electric and magnetic resonance frequencies as a function of the distance between cut-wire-pair layers for 3-layer structure. The solid lines are guide to the eyes only. 4. Conclusions The influence of the distance between CWP layers on the electric and the magnetic resonances was investigated both experimentally and theoretically in the microwave-frequency regime. Good agreement between the theory and the experimentwas obtained. It was found that the low-frequency edge of electric resonance strongly depends on the distance between layers, while the magnetic one is practically invariant. The difference can be understood by the difference in the distribution of the induced-charge density and the direction of the induced current between the electric and magnetic resonances. The magnetic resonance is degraded by the electric one or even two resonances might cancel each other with an increase in the distance between layers until it reaches 3.0 mm. This is of fundamental importance in understanding the electromagnetic response of the CWP at low frequencies and supports for the design on the LHMs working at high-frequency region. Furthermore, one has to avoid the crossing region where two resonances cancel each other or two resonances are too close. This effect will degrade or even destroy LH behavior when the cut-wire pairs are combined with the continuous wires. Acknowledgments This work was supported by the KOSEF Grant funded by the Korean Goverment (MEST) through the Quantum Photonic Science Research Center, Seoul, Korea. This work was also supported byKorea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD) (KRF-2005-005-J11903). Cited By OSA is able to provide readers links to articles that cite this paper by participating in CrossRef's Cited-By Linking service. CrossRef includes content from more than 3000 publishers and societies. In addition to listing OSA journal articles that cite this paper, citing articles from other participating publishers will also be listed.

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The present application is based on Japanese patent application 2000-112340 filed on Apr. 13, 2000, which is herein incorporated by reference. 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a construction machine such as a hydraulic excavator. Particularly, the invention relates to a hydraulic control circuit provided in the construction machine. 2. Description of the Background In the past, where excavation work is carried out by a hydraulic excavator, earth and sand scooped by a bucket are loaded on a dump truck waiting behind the hydraulic excavator by rotating an upper rotating body of the excavator. The operation is carried such that when loading onto the dump truck is terminated, an excavator arm is turned while elevated, and returned to an excavation point. The conventional hydraulic control circuit is designed so that oil is supplied from a common pump to a control valve for an arm and a control valve for rotating. Because of this, the arm, which has the smaller load, is first operated, so that the rotating operation is delayed. In this case, an operator has to carry out a complicated operation in which an arm operating lever is operated moderately, to provide sufficient oil pressure for the rotating operation. The complicated operation is difficult to do unless an operator is a skilled person. However, when pulling and rotating of the arm are carried out while adjusting an operating lever, there occurs a problem that rerotating to the excavation point is delayed to lower the work efficiency. To cope with the foregoing, control has been carried out so that a valve for throttling a quantity of oil discharged from an arm cylinder at the time of an arm pulling operation is provided to overcome the delay of the rotating operation during the arm pulling operation. However, in this hydraulic control circuit, since the valve is provided in a circuit on the rod side of an arm cylinder, even if throttling is done relatively strongly, a sufficient throttling effect could not be a obtained. The digging equipment herein denoted in simplified manner as an xe2x80x9cexcavator arm,xe2x80x9d as a rule comprises an integral single boom or a boom in two parts, plus a shovel stem and an excavating implement. It is an object of the present invention to provide a construction machine capable of carrying out a rotating operation and an excavator arm operation properly even if both the rotating and the arm pulling are operated simultaneously. In accordance with at least an aspect of the invention, the above and other objects are addressed by a rotating motor for causing a rotating operation such as a rotating operation of an upper rotating body. The arm operation comprises an operating such as arm pulling and arm-in, wherein xe2x80x9carm-inxe2x80x9d means bringing in the excavator arm. Actuators include an arm cylinder for causing an excavator arm operation. Control valves control supply and discharge of oil between each of hydraulic pumps and each of the actuators. The control valves incline a control valve for a rotating motor and a control valve for an arm cylinder. A switching valve is switched between a first position for separately supplying oil from the hydraulic pumps to the control valve for the rotating motor and the control valve for the arm cylinder, and a second position for uniting and supplying oil from the hydraulic pumps. A detector outputs signals responsive to the rotating operation and the arm pulling operation respectively when those operations are carried out. A switching controller switches the switching valve to the second position when the signals are output substantially simultaneously. A meter-in flow-controller such as meter-in flow-control valve restricts a quantity of oil supplied to the arm cylinder when the switching valve is switched to the second position. In this case, when rotating and arm pulling are operated simultaneously, signals are respectively output from the detector and applied to the switching controller. The switching controller recognizes that the signals are output simultaneously, and switches the switching valve to the second position. When the switching valve is switched to the second position, oil flows discharged from the plurality of hydraulic pumps are united and supplied to the rotating motor and the arm cylinder through a specific control valve. Accordingly, the quantity of oil supplied to the rotating motor and the arm cylinder is increased. Thereby, the quantity of oil necessary for quickly carrying out the rotating and arm pulling operations is secured. In this state, the meter-in flow-controller restricts the quantity of oil supplied to the arm cylinder, so that the arm pulling speed can be suppressed. Accordingly, even if the rotating and arm pulling are operated simultaneously, respective operations of the rotating and the arm pulling can be done quickly, the delay of the rotating operation can be overcome, and the rotating and arm pulling operations can be realized properly. Preferably, the meter-out flow controller is provided for restricting a quantity of oil discharged from the arm cylinder when the switching valve is switched to the second position. In this case, when the quantity of oil supplied to the arm cylinder is throttled, the meter-out flow controller also simultaneously throttles the quantity of oil from the arm cylinder. Accordingly, cavitation can be prevented when, for example, the arm descends by its own weight without any operation.

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--- abstract: 'We derive the non-equilibrium single-particle momentum distribution function of a hadron resonance gas. We then study the effects that this newly derived expression can have in the freeze-out description of fluid-dynamical models of heavy ion collisions and compare it with the method traditionally employed, the 14-moment approximation.' address: - '$^{a}$Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A2T8, Canada' - '$^{b}$Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany' - '$^{c}$Department of Physics, P.O.Box 35, FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland' author: - 'G. S. Denicol${}^{a,b}$ and H. Niemi${}^{c}$' title: 'Derivation of transient relativistic fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation for a multi-component system' --- Introduction ============ Fluid-dynamical models have been able to successfully describe the transverse momentum spectra and azimuthal transverse momentum anisotropies of particles observed in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. One of the main ingredients of fluid-dynamical models is the so-called freeze-out procedure in which the fluid degrees of freedom are matched to kinetic or particle degrees of freedom. Since experiments at RHIC and LHC measure particles and not fluid elements, the freeze-out is an essential step towards the comparison with experimental data. The Cooper-Frye formalism, usually applied to describe this matching process, demands the knowledge of microscopic information: the (single-particle) momentum distribution function of hadrons on the hypersurface in which freeze-out is performed (usually a constant temperature hypersurface). While this is well known for ideal fluids (Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac distributions in the local rest frame of the fluid), it has remained an open problem for viscous fluids. We remark that, so far, Israel and Stewart’s (IS) simple ansatz for *single* component systems is still being employed in most fluid-dynamical calculations. In this case, the non-equilibrium correction to the momentum distribution of the $i$–th hadronic species , $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{\left( i\right) }$, is assumed to be [@Teaney:2003kp] $$\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{\left( i\right) }=\varepsilon _{\mu \nu }k_{i}^{\mu }k_{i}^{\nu },$$where $k_{i}^{\mu }$ is the four-momentum of the corresponding hadron and $\varepsilon _{\mu \nu }$ is an expansion coefficient that should be matched to the fluid-dynamical variables. The above expression has two distinct approximations: 1) the momentum dependence was assumed to be quadratic and 2) the coefficient $\varepsilon _{\mu \nu }$ was assumed to be the same for all hadronic species, being matched to the shear stress tensor, $\pi ^{\mu \nu }$, as $\varepsilon _{\mu \nu }=\pi ^{\mu \nu }/\left[2 \left( \varepsilon +P\right) T^{2}\right] $. Here, $\varepsilon $, $P$, and $T$ are the energy density, thermodynamic pressure, and temperature of the fluid. In principle, both these assumptions are incorrect. The limitations of the first assumption were already investigated in some works [@Schenke]. On the other hand, the second assumption and its domain of validity were just investigated in Ref. [@Molnar:2011kx]. The purpose of this work is to further elaborate the studies regarding how $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{\left( i\right) }$ actually depends on the different particle species. Method of moments ================= We use the method of moments, as developed in Ref. [@Denicol:2012cn], to compute the $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{\left( i\right) }$ of a multi-component system without making any *a priori* assumption regarding its momentum dependence and the particle dependence of the expansion coefficients. First we factorize $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{\left( i\right) }$ in the following way $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}=f_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}\tilde{f}_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}\phi _{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$, where $f_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ is the local equilibrium distribution function, $\tilde{f}_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}=1+a\tilde{f}_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ ($a=-1$/$1$ for fermions/bosons), and $\phi _{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ is an out-of-equilibrium contribution. Next, we expand $\phi _{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ in terms of its moments using a complete and orthogonal basis constructed from particle four-momentum, $k_{i}^{\mu }$, and fluid four-velocity, $u^{\mu }$. As done in Ref. [@Denicol:2012cn], we use an expansion basis with two basic ingredients: 1) the irreducible tensors $1,k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu \right\rangle },k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu \right. }k_{i}^{\left. \nu \right\rangle },k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu \right. }k_{i}^{\nu }k_{i}^{\left. \lambda \right\rangle },\cdots \ $, analogous to the well-known set of spherical harmonics and constructed by the symmetrized traceless projection of $k_{i}^{\mu _{1}}\cdots k_{i}^{\mu _{m}}$, i.e., $k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu _{1}\right. }\cdots k_{i}^{\left. \mu _{m}\right\rangle }\equiv \Delta _{\nu _{1}\cdots \nu _{m}}^{\mu _{1}\cdots \mu _{m}}k_{i}^{\nu _{1}}\cdots k_{i}^{\nu _{m}}$, and 2) the orthonormal polynomials $P_{i\mathbf{k}}^{\left( n\ell \right) }=\sum_{r=0}^{n}a_{nr}^{(\ell )i}\left( u_{\mu }k_{i}^{\mu }\right) ^{r}$, which are equivalent to the associated Laguerre polynomials in the limit of massless, classical particles [@Denicol:2012cn]. Then, the distribution function becomes, $$f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}=f_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}+f_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}\tilde{f}_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}\sum_{\ell =0}^{\infty }\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }\mathcal{H}_{i\mathbf{k}}^{\left( n\ell \right) }\rho _{i,n}^{\mu _{1}\cdots \mu _{\ell }}k_{i,\mu _{1}}\cdots k_{i,\mu _{\ell }}, \label{expansion}$$ where we introduced the energy-dependent coefficients, $\mathcal{H}_{i\mathbf{p}}^{\left( n\ell \right) }\equiv \left[ N_{i}^{\left( \ell \right) }/\ell !\right] \sum_{m=n}^{\infty }a_{mn}^{(\ell )i}P_{i\mathbf{k}}^{\left( m\ell \right) }\left( u_{\mu }k_{i}^{\mu }\right) $. The fields $\rho _{i,n}^{\mu _{1}\cdots \mu _{\ell }}$ can be determined exactly using the orthogonality relations satisfied by the expansion basis and can be shown to correspond to the irreducible moments of $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$,$$\rho _{i,r}^{\mu _{1}\ldots \mu _{\ell }}\equiv \left\langle E_{i\mathbf{k}}^{r}k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu _{1}\right. }\ldots k_{i}^{\left. \mu _{\ell }\right\rangle }\right\rangle _{\delta }\text{, \ \ \ }\left\langle \ldots \right\rangle _{\delta }=\int dK_{i}\text{ }\left( \ldots \right) \delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}, \label{Hk}$$where $g_{i}$ is the degeneracy factor of the $i$–th hadron species and $dK_{i}=g_{i}d^{3}\mathbf{k/}\left[ \left( 2\pi \right) ^{3}k_{i}^{0}\right] $. As long as this basis is complete, the above expansion fully describes $f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$, no matter how far from equilibrium the system is. Here, we are interested only on the effects arising from the shear-stress tensor. For this case, it is enough to fix $\ell =2$ (take only irreducible second-rank tensors) in the expansion above, i.e., neglect all scalar terms, e.g. bulk viscous pressure, irreducible first-rank tensors, e.g. heat flow, and tensors with rank higher than two (that never appear in fluid dynamics). The next approximation is the truncation of the expansion in momentum space, keeping only the term with $n=0$ (with $\ell =2$ already fixed). Then, we obtain (for classical particles)$$f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}=f_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}+\frac{f_{0\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}}{2\left( \varepsilon _{i}+P_{i}\right) T^{2}}\pi _{i}^{\mu \nu }k_{i,\mu }k_{i,\nu }\;.$$Above, $\pi _{i}^{\mu \nu }=\rho _{i,0}^{\mu \nu }$, $\varepsilon _{i}$, and $P_{i}$ are the shear-stress tensor, the energy density, and the thermodynamic pressure *of the* $i$*–th particle species*, respectively. Note that by keeping only the term with $n=0$ (for $\ell =2$) we have the same momentum dependence obtained in the IS formula. However, our expansion coefficients are not independent of the particle type. In this formalism, this did not have to be assumed, but appeared naturally as a consequence of the orthogonality relations satisfied by the basis. In order to apply this expression to describe freeze-out, further approximations are required. This happens because in fluid dynamics we only evolve the total shear-stress tensor of the system ($\pi ^{\mu \nu }=\sum_{i}\pi _{i}^{\mu \nu }$) and do not know, from fluid dynamics itself, how it divides into the individual shear-stress tensors of each hadron species ($\pi _{i}^{\mu \nu }$). In order to extract this information, it is mandatory to know how transient relativistic fluid dynamics emerges from the underlying microscopic theory. Basically, transient relativistic fluid dynamics is derived as the long, but not asymptotically long, time limit of the Boltzmann equation. In this limit, it is possible to relate the shear-stress tensor of individual particle species with the total shear stress tensor, $\pi ^{\mu \nu }$, and the shear tensor, $\sigma ^{\mu \nu }=\partial ^{\left\langle \mu \right. }u^{\left. \nu \right\rangle }$, of the system. This was done in Ref. [@Denicol:2012cn], for single component systems, and can be easily extended to multi-component systems. Here, we just write down the solution and leave the detailed derivation of this relation to a future work. The solution is, $$\pi _{i}^{\mu \nu }=\frac{\Omega ^{i0}}{\sum_{j}\Omega ^{j0}}\pi ^{\mu \nu }+2\left[ \eta _{i}-\eta \frac{\Omega ^{i0}}{\sum_{j}\Omega ^{j0}}\right] \sigma ^{\mu \nu }\equiv \alpha _{i}\pi ^{\mu \nu }+\beta _{i}\sigma ^{\mu \nu }, \label{EquationN}$$where $\eta _{i}$ is the shear viscosity of the $i$–th species, while $\eta =\sum_{i}\eta _{i}$ is the total shear viscosity. The matrices $\Omega $ are defined in such a way as to diagonalize the collision integral $\mathcal{M}$, $\Omega ^{-1}\mathcal{M}\Omega =\mathrm{diag}(\chi _{1},\cdots ,\chi _{N})$, with $\chi _{i}$ being the eigenvalues of $\mathcal{M}$. With the truncation in momentum assumed above and considering only elastic 2-to-2 collisions between *classical* particles, $\mathcal{M}$ has the following simple form $$\begin{gathered} \mathcal{M}^{ij}=\mathcal{A}^{i}\delta ^{ij}+\mathcal{C}^{ij}, \\ \mathcal{A}^{i}=\frac{1}{5}\sum_{j=1}^{N_{\mathrm{hadr.}}}\int dK_{i}dK_{j}^{\prime }dP_{i}dP_{j}^{\prime }\gamma _{ij}W_{\mathbf{pp}^{\prime }-\mathbf{kk}^{\prime }}^{ij}f_{i\mathbf{k}}^{\left( 0\right) }f_{j\mathbf{k}^{\prime }}^{\left( 0\right) }\left( u_{\lambda }k_{i}^{\lambda }\right) ^{-1}k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu \right. }k_{i}^{\left. \nu \right\rangle }\left[ p_{i\left\langle \mu \right. }p_{i\left. \nu \right\rangle }-k_{i\left\langle \mu \right. }k_{i\left. \nu \right\rangle }\right] , \\ \mathcal{C}^{ij}=\frac{1}{5}\int dK_{i}dK_{j}^{\prime }dP_{i}dP_{j}^{\prime }\gamma _{ij}W_{\mathbf{pp}^{\prime }-\mathbf{kk}^{\prime }}^{ij}f_{i\mathbf{k}}^{\left( 0\right) }f_{j\mathbf{k}^{\prime }}^{\left( 0\right) }\left( u_{\lambda }k_{i}^{\lambda }\right) ^{-1}k_{i}^{\left\langle \mu \right. }k_{i}^{\left. \nu \right\rangle }\left[ p_{j\left\langle \mu \right. }^{\prime }p_{j\left. \nu \right\rangle }^{\prime }-k_{j\left\langle \mu \right. }^{\prime }k_{j\left. \nu \right\rangle }^{\prime }\right] ,\end{gathered}$$where $\gamma ^{ij}=1-\left( 1/2\right) \delta ^{ij}$ and $W_{\mathbf{pp}^{\prime }-\mathbf{kk}^{\prime }}^{ij}$ is the transition rate. Simple model of hadrons ======================= In order to compute the coefficients $\alpha _{i}$ and $\beta _{i}$ appearing in Eq. \[EquationN\] we must provide a set of hadronic cross sections. In this work, we estimate these coefficients for the first time using a simple hadronic model, in which all hadrons have the same constant cross section, $\sigma _{ij}=$ $30$ mb. We consider only elastic collisions between the hadrons and include all hadrons up to a mass of $1.8$ GeV. In this case, $\alpha _{i}$ and $\beta _{i}$ are actually independent of the value chosen for the cross section and all the difference between the various hadrons species originate solely from their different masses. In this simple scheme, we computed $\alpha _{i}$ and $\beta _{i}$ for all hadron species up to $1.8$ GeV and included all the decays of unstable resonances. In order to probe the effect this more sophisticated $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ can have on heavy-ion observables, we computed the elliptic flow of pions, kaons, and protons using the fluid-dynamical model applied in Ref. [@Niemi:2012ry], with exactly the same parameters (GLmix initialization, HH-HQ shear viscosity parametrization), but considering several choices of $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$. The resutls are shown in Figs.1. The different lines correspond to the following cases: 1) solid line uses Israel-Stewart’s ansatz, 2) dotted line uses the $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ derived in this paper, and 3) dashed line uses the $\delta f_{\mathbf{k}}^{(i)}$ derived in this paper in the Navier-Stokes limit ($\pi ^{\mu \nu }=2\eta \sigma ^{\mu \nu }$). 3.4cm 3.4cm 3.4cm We see that the particle dependence of the coefficients do not have a strong effect on the differential elliptic flow, which looks very similar to the one computed using Israel-Stewart’s ansatz. At very non-central collisions, the difference is larger, but even then, cannot be considered as a crucial effect. Note that one of the reasons that makes this difference small is that we are not in the Navier-Stokes limit at freeze-out: the elliptic flow computed assuming the Navier-Stokes limit actually deviates more strongly from the one computed using Israel-Stewart’s ansatz. Furthermore, note that there is a qualitative particle dependence in our result, the elliptic flow of pions is below the one computed with Israel-Stewart’s ansatz while the elliptic flow of kaons and protons are always above. We remark that these results arise from an over simplified hadronic description and this insensitivity to the particle species might be coming just from the simple choice of hadronic cross sections assumed. In future calculations, we will come back to this discussion using more realistic cross sections for the hadrons and also including inelastic collisions between the hadrons as well. 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Q: Uploading from large CSV file without Dataloader? I'm trying to upload a csv file from VF page. I'm using the inputFile component within apex:Form tags, and using blob data type in controller class and then converting it to string. The problem I'm facing: I get "Maximum view state size limit exceeded" error. It is because my csv file size is around 400KB. Is there any workaround? I've tried uploading the csv as a file in document object but cannot figure out how to read the data from this document file. Can anyone please let me know how to read the csv file using document class methods or, any other way to read the csv file records (using VF page). Thanks! A: This happens because the "view state" happens to be limited to only 135kb. Typically, when you're uploading files, you need to remember that you can't store files in the view state. Instead, mark the file data as transient: public transient Blob fileBody { get; set; } This means the file's contents will not persist between transactions. It also means users will need to re-select the file if something goes wrong. If you want to avoid having users re-upload the file, save the data to a record (perhaps a Document or Attachment).

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COMPUTER TODAY A computer is an electric device that is used to perform repetitive calculations at very high speed. The computer acts as a data processing device and also stores large amounts of data. This data could be text, pictures, voice, numbers, photographs and other types of information that are used by humans in their day-to-day operations. Life cannot be imagined without computers. In fact, the new millennium is the era of computers and its associated techniques, commonly known as Information Technology (IT). Computers help the school children learn new techniques of study, graphic designs, games and other useful educational applications. They help the college students in preparing reports. They help the office executives in accounts, software development, sale invoicing and manufacturing. They help the libraries in the efficient management of their operations. They run the factories and equipment. They control the satellites and nuclear weapons. They help the young and the old through the Internet sites. They are, in fact, indispensable as every operation of human life is incomplete and inefficient without them. As school-going students, we must learn computers. Computers are available in various configurations. For learning computer operations a computer with 166 MHz speed (Known as the CUP speed), a HDD of 1.2 MB storage capacity... read more

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Q: using a List that is ordered, I want to get next/previous urls So I have a List collection that I fetch via a API call (which I don't have any control over). The list is ordered. public class Article { int articleID; string Url } So I have a Url value, using that I want to figure out the next and previous Url's if any. What's the most elegant way of doing this? A: Since your list is of type Article... var foundIndex = articles.FindIndex(a => a.Url == "myUrl"); var previousUrl = (foundIndex > 0 ? articles[foundIndex - 1].Url : null); var nextUrl = (foundIndex < articles.Count-1 ? articles[foundIndex + 1].Url : null);

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Removal of Cu(II) from aqueous solutions using chemically modified chitosan. Chemically modified chitosan namely epichlorohydrin cross-linked xanthate chitosan (ECXCs) has been used for the removal of Cu(II) ions from aqueous medium. The influence of various operating parameters such as pH, temperature, sorbent dosage, initial concentration of Cu(II) ions and contact time on the adsorption capacity of ECXCs has been investigated. Thermodynamic parameters namely Delta G degrees, Delta H degrees and DeltaS degrees of the Cu(II) adsorption process have been calculated. Differential anodic stripping voltammetric technique was used to determine the concentration of Cu(II) in the test solution before and after adsorption. The nature of the possible adsorbent-metal ion interactions was studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The studies showed that the adsorption of Cu(II) on ECXCs strongly depends on pH and temperature. The maximum adsorption capacity was observed at pH 5.0 and the adsorption capacity of ECXCs increased with increasing temperature indicating the endothermic nature of adsorption process. Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption equations were used to fit the experimental data. The adsorption process is found to follow the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The maximum adsorption capacity was found to be 43.47 mg g(-1) from the Langmuir isotherm model at 50 degrees C. During desorption studies 97-100% of adsorbed copper ion is released into solution in presence of 1N EDTA, HCl and H(2)SO(4).

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Trump should disclose details of conversation with Putin, - ex-head of CIA Former CIA director Leon Panetta believes that the content of the conversation between US and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki should become known to the public. He told about this to Fox News. "The president of the United States for the first time has a meeting with Putin of Russia. And Russia is not our friend. They do everything they can to undermine our security in this country. I know - I don't think it's too much to ask that that happen. President Clinton presented to the American people what was being discussed with individuals. And besides that, he had people in the room. He had no note takers that were there that could summarize what they talked about. Here, we don't know what went on. And I think we're entitled to know. And, frankly, if this was a good meeting, why wouldn't the president of the United States discuss with the American people what happened?" Panetta said. A meeting of US and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place in the Finnish capital Helsinki on July 16. The leaders of the two countries spoke more than 4 hours.

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Steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome in lupus nephritis. Response to chlorambucil. Nephrotic syndrome associated with mesangial lupus nephritis developed in a young woman. The heavy proteinuria exhibited a striking steroid-dependent course during a three-year period of time, with ten relapses occurring whenever attempts were made to withdraw prednisone therapy. A prolonged remission was induced by the administration of chlorambucil.

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Always (2011 film) Always (; lit. Only You) is a 2011 South Korean film directed by Song Il-gon. Starring So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo in the lead roles, it is about a romance between an ex-boxer who has closed his heart to the world and a telemarketer who remains spirited despite slowly going blind. With online tickets selling out a 2,000-seat outdoor movie theater in a record seven seconds, Always was the opening film of the 2011 Busan International Film Festival. It was released in theaters on October 20, 2011. In South Korea, the film had a total of 1,027,614 admissions nationwide. Plot Having closed himself away from the world, former boxer Cheol-min starts a new part-time job as a parking lot attendant. One night, he is sitting in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and staring at the small television when a young woman, Jung-hwa, walks into the tollbooth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point. Cast So Ji-sub as Jang Cheol-min Han Hyo-joo as Ha Jung-hwa Yun Jong-hwa as Min Tae-sik Kang Shin-il as Choi (boxing gym manager) Park Chul-min as Coach Bang Jo Sung-ha as section chief Choi Jin Goo as pottery store owner Oh Kwang-rok as Park Chang-soo (man wanted by loan sharks) Kim Jeong-hak as team leader Ma Kim Mi-kyung as Sister Joanna Wie Seung-bae as martial arts champion Jung Jae-jin as shift old man Min Kyeong-jin as janitor Yeom Hye-ran as beauty parlor owner Ahn Se-ho as broker Choi Gyo-sik as real estate agent Remake The film was remade in 2014 in Turkish as Sadece Sen, in Kannada in 2015 as Boxer and in Hindi in 2016 as Do Lafzon Ki Kahani. References External links Category:2011 films Category:South Korean romantic drama films Category:Films about blind people Category:2010s romantic drama films Category:Showbox films Category:South Korean films remade in other languages

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Q: Averaging measurable functions over amenable group actions Let $G$ be an amenable group acting on a space $X$. Amenability means there is a $G$-invariant mean on $L^\infty(G,{\mathbf R})$. Given a bounded function $f\colon X\to {\mathbf R}$ one can use the mean to define a $G$-invariant function $\overline{f}\colon X\to {\mathbf R}$: one just uses the mean to average over the $G$-orbits. Question: If $f$ was Borel-measurable, then so is $\overline{f}$ Borel-measurable? (At least if $G$ is countable?) This is true for finite groups because sums of measurable functions are measurable. This was asked on math.stackexchange but got no attention. A: I imagine that in your setting the group $G$ is assumed to preserve some measure $\mu$ on $X$, or at least the measure class of $\mu$ (you are not being very precise about what "space" means, or in what sense are things measurable). The answer is "yes" (at least for discrete groups), and here is one way to see this. Let's denote by $F_n$ a sequence of Folner sets in $G$, so that for any $g\in G$ the symmetric differences $F_n \Delta g F_n$ satisfy $| F_n \Delta g F_n | / | F_n | \to 0$. Regard $M=L^\infty(X,\mathbb{R})$ as the dual of $M_* = L^1(X,\mu)$ and equip it with the weak-* topology given by point wise convergence on $L^1$. Then the unit ball of $M$ is weak-* compact. Given a function $\zeta\in M$, consider the functions $\zeta_n = (1/F_n) ( \sum_{g\in F_n} g\zeta )$ and let $\bar\zeta$ be a weak-* limit point of that sequence. It is not hard to verify that $\bar\zeta$ is $G$-invariant. Indeed, for any $\phi \in L^1(X,\mu)$ you get that $$\left|\int \phi(x) (g\cdot \zeta_n(x) -\zeta_n) d\mu(x)\right|= \left|\int \frac{1}{|F_n|} \left(\sum_{h\in gF\Delta F} h\cdot \zeta(x)\right) \phi(x) d\mu(x)\right|$$ $$\leq \Vert \zeta\Vert_\infty \Vert\phi\Vert_1 \frac{|F\Delta gF|}{|F|}\to 0$$ so that $\langle g\bar\zeta -\bar\zeta,\phi\rangle=0$ for any $\phi$. The function $\bar\zeta$ is measurable, since it remains in $M$.

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Note that unrestricted submarine warfare was resumed in February 1917 and the British began full-scale convoying in September 1917. The heaviest losses were suffered in April 1917 when a record 881,027 tons were sunk by the U-boats.

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Stranger than Fiction Long Street’s favourite alternative club is back Lovers of techno, nu-rave, indie – basically every alternative music genre you can imagine - were devastated when Fiction Bar closed its doors. The scene stalwart had been open for over five years, and had a passionate following of regulars. Three of them, over a late night drink with the previous owner, jumped at the chance to keep the brand alive. Fast forward six months – and the doors are open again. We’re downstairs at restaurant and coffee shop Lola’s in Cape Town city centre. New owners, Robbie Mulholland and Thomas Kennedy (the third, Don Blignaut, is upstairs) have been partying at Fiction since its inception. “In varsity days, we spent all our money there,” says Robbie. Both are in their early twenties, clean cut, good looking guys – a far cry from an image of a shady club owner dripping in gold chains and women. “It’s not just about the club, but about Long Street in general,” adds Thomas. “In the last couple of years there’s been a deterioration, and we want to help uplift the street, keep it safe.” In order to help accomplish this they’ve installed new CCTV cameras on the street corners, and will be working closely with the Central City Improvement District (CCID), by reporting recorded crimes as well as by hosting monthly charity evenings called ‘Turn the Tables’- whereby different organisations will be highlighted, and funds raised. Altruism paired with alternative music, of course. The dance floor We’ve left our sidewalk table for a tour of the newly refurbished club. A heritage building, it dates back to 1856, and in the last six months it’s had a complete structural overhaul. Support columns, new walls, and the unisex bathrooms (that had many girls complaining) have now been moved to the second floor, this time with one for each sex. The dance floor, previously a space that could fit 50, uncomfortably, now looks as if it could easily hold 200. Thomas points to where the old DJ booth was outlined in masking tape;like a chalk drawing of a dead body. It’s tiny in comparison to the stage that now flanks the far wall. “Check out our new bar,” he says. “It’s made from 3000 individual pieces of wood—all glued by the three of us.” Gaming culture meets cocktail hour The grass is greener upstairs, literally. Carpeted in Astro Turf, stairs of bright emerald lead you to the ‘daytime bar’ on the second level (which used to be office space). Decked out with wooden benches and counters, the effect is minimalist and fresh. “This is our baby,” says Thomas. “The concept is around the gaming culture, there’ll be video games and themed drinks; like the Mario and Luigi—a green shot followed by a red one. “We’ll be open from 12 in the afternoon, serving craft beer and cocktails.” Up yet more green stairs is the rooftop. The entrance to this is a glass conservatory. “We’ll hang Mario clouds from here,” says Thomas pointing to the glass ceiling. The view is of Cape Town’s architecture, like so many Art Deco wave crests. Fiction nights As fans of the brand, the trio will be sticking to the same kind of parties that have made Fiction so popular. “The music will be a journey through different genres,” says Thomas. New additions include; Equinox Wednesdays, which are progressive and techno hybrid evenings. “We don’t want these nights to be confused with trance parties. There will be some psy acts, but no stretch fabric and mushrooms all over the place.” There’s a new Friday night too, called ‘& Friends’. The headlining act of the night will choose the rest of the line-up: “they tell us who else they want to play; and we run it for them.” Expect the likes of Niskerone, PHfat, Mix & Blend, on any given night. Plus, the first month alone has seen three international acts, including JFK from Paris and indie electro group Zombie Nation. Can a club in Cape Town beat the odds, and stay open for years to come? It seems stranger than fiction, but this particular club literally has a new lease on life.

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Potentiation of NMDA receptor currents by arachidonic acid. Arachidonic acid is released by phospholipase A2 when activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors by neurotransmitter glutamate raises the calcium concentration in neurons, for example during the initiation of long-term potentiation and during brain anoxia. Here we investigate the effect of arachidonic acid on glutamate-gated ion channels by whole-cell clamping isolated cerebellar granule cells. Arachidonic acid potentiates, and makes more transient, the current through NMDA receptor channels, and slightly reduces the current through non-NMDA receptor channels. Potentiation of the NMDA receptor current results from an increase in channel open probability, with no change in open channel current. We observe potentiation even with saturating levels of agonist at the glutamate- and glycine-binding sites on these channels; it does not result from conversion of arachidonic acid to lipoxygenase or cyclooxygenase derivatives, or from activation of protein kinase C. Arachidonic acid may act by binding to a site on the NMDA receptor, or by modifying the receptor's lipid environment. Our results suggest that arachidonic acid released by activation of NMDA (or other) receptors will potentiate NMDA receptor currents, and thus amplify increases in intracellular calcium concentration caused by glutamate. This may explain why inhibition of phospholipase A2 blocks the induction of long-term potentiation.

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Dynamics of intermediate filaments. Recent progress and unanswered questions. Intermediate filaments (IFs) have always been considered as the most static and 'skeletal' cellular elements. This view is now changing: new information reveals that IFs exchange subunits at steady-state, that IF networks can be assembled de novo, and that IF proteins are subject to elaborate chemical modification and de-modification during mitosis. I describe below some of the key observations which have made us realize that IFs are dynamic structures. I also discuss some of the remaining questions pertinent to the pathways of IF assembly under in vivo conditions.

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Q: Multiple Ui_Dialog definitions due to multiple *.ui files? I'm working on a RaspberryPi with a 3.5 inch LCD screen. I have a Qt 5 based application that operates in kiosk mode without a title bar. The app uses the entire 320x480 screen. I am trying to add a second dialog that is displayed when the user clicks a button on the main dialog window. Each dialog is designed using Qt Designer. Each dialog has a *.ui file that sets the dialog size and adds a button. The *.ui file is uic'd or moc'd into a header and source file: $g++ -c -pipe -g3 -O1 -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_UITOOLS_ LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -isystem /usr/include/x86_64 -linux-gnu/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtUiTools -isystem /us r/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -isystem /usr/in clude/libdrm -I. -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o dialog1.o dialog1.cpp In file included from dialog2.h:7:0, from dialog1.h:8, from dialog1.cpp:1: ui_dialog2.h:22:7: error: redefinition of ‘class Ui_Dialog’ class Ui_Dialog ^~~~~~~~~ In file included from dialog1.h:7:0, from dialog1.cpp:1: ui_dialog1.h:22:7: note: previous definition of ‘class Ui_Dialog’ class Ui_Dialog ^~~~~~~~~ In file included from dialog2.h:7:0, from dialog1.h:8, from dialog1.cpp:1: ui_dialog2.h:50:11: error: redefinition of ‘class Ui::Dialog’ class Dialog: public Ui_Dialog {}; ^~~~~~ In file included from dialog1.h:7:0, from dialog1.cpp:1: ui_dialog1.h:50:11: note: previous definition of ‘class Ui::Dialog’ class Dialog: public Ui_Dialog {}; ^~~~~~ Makefile:445: recipe for target dialog1.o failed make: *** [dialog1.o] Error 1 The problem seems to be the way the *.ui file is translated: $ cat ui_dialog1.h | tail -n 7 namespace Ui { class Dialog: public Ui_Dialog {}; } // namespace Ui And: $ cat ui_dialog2.h | tail -n 7 namespace Ui { class Dialog: public Ui_Dialog {}; } // namespace Ui I know the problem, but I am not sure how to fix it under Qt tools. The tools need to use a unique namespace or unique class name for each *.ui file. How do I fix the problem? A MCVE is available at Noloader | qt-ui-dialog GitHub. The MCVE be cloned with: git clone https://github.com/noloader/qt-ui-dialog The problem can be reproduced with: cd qt-ui-dialog make clean && qmake && make A: An ui_something.h header must be included in something.cpp source file, not in something.h header. Looking at your compiler output, it seems you're including ui_dialog1.h in dialog1.h, which is wrong: include it in dialog1.cpp, instead (same applies to other dialogs). Be sure to forward declare the Ui namespace and class in the header, though. In both your headers, add this lines before the dialog class declaration: namespace Ui { class Dialog; } This means you must use a pointer to this Ui::Dialog class, so it has to be: class Dialog1 : public QDialog { /* ... */ private: Ui::Dialog * ui; }; and, accordingly: Dialog1::Dialog1(QDialog *parent) : QDialog(parent), ui(new Ui::Dialog) { ui->setupUi(this); } cleanup: Dialog1::~Dialog1() { delete ui; }

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Choco-Logo is back after Elma native buys chocolate maker The 27-year-old chocolate maker, which closed in May, has a new owner. But chocolatier Dan Johnson has returned to the kitchen and has already begun spinning out his popular confectionery delights such as Salty Turtles, Peppermint Bark, and the company's signature Nutcorn. Bob Little, an Elma native and former corporate attorney in New York City, said he has always had an "entrepreneurial itch" and had always wanted to come home to the Buffalo region. "I'd always been drawn back to Buffalo, and I always kept an eye out for an opportunity to return," Little said. "I'm so glad I can do it in a way that brings back this product that people know and love." As Little researched Choco-Logo Confectionery Design, he found that everyone he spoke to lit up as they talked about it. They all seemed to love Johnson. They raved about his candy, and about how much they enjoyed visiting his Broadway retail store. Little was impressed by Choco-Logo's following, and also liked that the factory and store were located just east of downtown, in a section of the city experiencing a renaissance. When Little heard Johnson was looking to get out from the business side of the company and back into actual chocolate-making, he knew he had found his opportunity. And Johnson had found his. "I have found my dream job," he said. The new arrangement with Little frees Johnson from the business side of things. "I'm working on restoring corporate accounts and Dan can get back to doing what he loves and what he's frankly amazing at," Little said. Choco-Logo had been a successful commercial candy maker and designer, and had major wholesale contracts with luxury department stores Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom. The core of its operation was producing custom-made confections for charities and logo-embossed chocolate gifts for corporations. A soft opening of the retail shop, 141 Broadway, began Monday. Choco-Logo began taking corporate orders two weeks ago for old clients such as the Darwin Martin House and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. While the retail store will remain stocked with the same goodies as before, the company's main focus will be on corporate contract orders, such as corporate branded chocolates. Johnson is a trained chef who once owned Lake Champlain Chocolates in Burlington, Vt. He listed Choco-Logo for sale in 2015, saying he was overwhelmed by the day-to-day paperwork, phone calls and building maintenance required to run the business. His greatest desire was to make chocolate but, when all was said and done, that had become a very small part of his job. He bought the company in the early 1990s from the owners of what is now Make n’ Mold, a candy manufacturer in Black Rock. Choco-Logo operated out of rented spaces until Johnson bought and renovated the Broadway site through the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corp. in 2004. A year later, it opened to the public with its factory retail store.

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Homer Alaska - News Story last updated at 4:32 PM on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Begich focuses on healthy state economy Neither rain nor snow could deter Homer area residents from attending a town hall meeting with Sen. Mark Begich on Sunday. More than 100 people crowded into the commons of Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College-University of Alaska Anchorage, to listen to the senator's comments and to ask questions. Photographer: McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News U.S. Sen. Mark Begich speaks to a crowd of more than 100 area residents on Sunday at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College-University of Alaska Anchorage. Homer Mayor Beth Wythe introduced Begich, noting his five years of service to the state and his focus on "building a strong economy for Alaska." Begich serves on the U.S. Senate committees on Appropriations; Veterans' Affairs; Indian Affairs; Commerce, Science and Transportation; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard. Although newly elected members of the Senate are still getting adjusted, Begich assured the audience that "we are fully engaged in a lot of issues." One of those issues is passage of the Violence Against Women Act. "The Senate passed it last year with bi-partisan support. It sat in the House and died at the end of the session, but we brought it back," said Begich. "It's important for Alaska and for the rest of the country and I hope the House will move forward on it." Begich is a co-sponsor of the VAWA, which seeks to strengthen protections for victims of domestic and sexual abuse and expand programs in support of those victims. On Tuesday, following his visit to Homer, Begich announced the bill had passed in the Senate with a vote of 78-22 and will now proceed to the House. The need for a Postal Reform Bill that also passed the Senate last year but not the House was addressed by the senator. His comments followed a Feb. 6 announcement of changes to the postal service delivery schedule, namely of weekly five-day mail delivery and six-day package delivery beginning August 2013. The bigger, over-riding issue, however, is how to deal with the nation's budget and its $16 trillion debt, said Begich. "People think the debt occurred overnight, magically. No, this is 50 years of lack of people watching the bottom line, to be frank with you," he said. Begich noted the importance of March 1, when automatic budget cuts occur, and March 27, when a continuing resolution allows Congress to fund government agencies if formal appropriations have not been signed into law. "The problem is you can't modify a continuing resolution," said Begich, using the State Department as an example. Under a continuing resolution, "they will still receive dollars for work that they're doing in the Iraq war. There is no war in Iraq that we're engaged in, but we'll still spend the money because the continuing resolution does that. ... So, we're trying to figure out a regular appropriation bill so we can get the junk out and move forward." Other topics needing attention are education and immigration reform and energy, "but we can't get to those issues when we're buried by budget issues," said Begich. Around the state, Begich said Alaska's "economy is generally pretty good." With oil and gas revenues declining, however, the state will be challenged "to figure out how to manage the budget with or without tax changes," he said. Compared to fishing on the East Coast, fishing in Alaska is in "good" shape. Begich credited Alaska's Legislature for funding ocean acidification research, he vowed to continue fighting against "Frankenfish," genetically engineered fish, and said the state's congressional delegation stands firm in "doing everything we can to take that product off the market." In terms of oil and gas development on the outer continental shelf, Begich said the question isn't if it will happen but how it will be managed for the benefit of Alaska and with the necessary security and safety. "One thing we're pushing is a revenue-sharing bill. Any development that goes on out there, we believe Alaska should get a share," he said. The benefit would go to tribes, local governments, village corporations, "people on the ground that are dealing with the impacts," with a small percent going to the state. Before taking questions from the audience, Begich noted the importance of developing Alaska's ports and harbors and expanding educational opportunities. "We'll fund roads and bike trials, but when it comes to ports, they kind of have to fend for themselves," he said. "That's a problem because they are a huge part of our economic engine." He emphasized the need for vocational education and broadening a "STEM" approach (science, technology, engineering and math) to "STEAM" (science, technology, engineering, art and math). Asked if he saw an end to the delay of President Obama's court and committee nominations, Begich described filibustering and changes he supports that would streamline the process. "To not have judges in positions because of political fighting is ridiculous," he said. With regard to the possibility of national funding for tsunami cleanup, Begich noted the bill providing assistance for areas struck by Super Storm Sandy. "That bill should have been called the disaster relief bill, not the Sandy bill," said Begich, referencing disasters that occur elsewhere. "Climate change is happening. Anyone who doesn't think it's happening is on another planet. That means we'll have more disasters. ... Something's happening and we need to prepare for it." He characterized marine debris it as a "slow disaster." "We're used to earthquakes and storms. They end and you deal with it. ... This is one we want to deal with now. If we wait, the accumulation that will occur will be beyond management," he said. Asked about the future of the proposed Pebble mine, Begich said he supported the review by the Environmental Protection Agency. "I think Pebble has huge challenges ahead of them. I don't know how they'll ever meet (those challenges), to be frank with you, but we have to let EPA finish with (the review), and then the great debate will begin," he said. The question-and-answer period was an opportunity for Begich to announce his intent to sponsor a bill safeguarding the right to vote, progress in the state for veterans to receive health care in their home communities, his support of balancing oil and gas development and environmental concerns, providing the U.S. Coast Guard with the resources it needs and the importance of looking ahead. "Elected officials think about today, but this state, this community didn't get built on those ideas. We built thinking about the next 20 years, the next 30 years," said Begich. "I would challenge you to ask any legislator from any area, 'Where do you see Alaska in the next 20 years?' I'd be curious to know what they say. That's the question we're not facing in this state." In terms of gun control, Begich doesn't foresee legislation being passed to ban weapons, but he has co-sponsored a bill that would provide teachers with the skills to quickly analyze the mental health of individuals in intervention scenarios. He spoke of the need for an improved background check system and said the Senate will be addressing the trafficking of guns. Given the current economy, Begich was asked where he saw the nation in 20 years. "As Americans, for us to believe that we're going over the cliff and that we'll be gone as a society, I will never believe that. This country has gone through worse conditions," said Begich. "This is about money. This is manageable. It does require people to make decisions. That's the difficult piece. But I'm not afraid to make these decisions." Pointing to a negative "everything is falling apart" attitude he has observed in Washington, D.C, Begich said, "You can think that or you can do something about it. ... We have had plenty of ups and downs, but that doesn't get us to move to the next state. There will be some big bumps coming, but we'll be better for it." Additional information about Sen. Begich can be found at www.begich.senate.gov. McKibben Jackinsky can be reached at [email protected].

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Q: Why ArrayList has no varargs constructor? My question may sound silly, but please, read the whole question first. I wonder for a long time, why ArrayList and other classes implementing List, Set etc., doesn't provide a simple constructor accepting the variable count of parameters? List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>(1, 2, 3); This looks simple and obvious. Java 9 provides newly List.of() static factory method which only copies the same what Apache Utils and Guava have introduced. We are forced to use the verbose workarounds. List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3); List<Integer> list = Stream.of(1, 2, 3).collect(Collectors.toList()); List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>() {{ add(1); add(2); add(3); }}; ...unless we are happy to upgrade to Java 9 or add a dependency to one of the util libraries above or create a class extending ArrayList and writing our own constructor. Finally, the question I ask: What reason made designers omit this constructor? You can argue me that there already exists a constructor ArrayList(int initialCapacity) which "constructs an empty list with the specified initial capacity" (source at the same page) - I am aware this conflicts my idea, but honestly: how many times we had to declare the size of ArrayList in advance? Don't we need an ArrayList with predefined values used for ex. unit tests data? Isn't enough to initialize new ArrayList<>() which calls this(10) by default for 99,9% of cases? Each List::add(..) calls a method that ensures the size of the array storing the values which are expensive for the huge amount of data and the constructor of ArrayList with a predefined size is welcome - so, why don't we use an array? Do we need to edit the large array afterward? - add it to the ArrayList using Arrays.asList(array) which calls System.arraycopy just once, or we can ensureCapacity. This is how I understand the current design of ArrayList after browsing through some of the classes in java.util. Please, correct me where my understanding is wrong or knowledge insufficient. Is there any technical issue explaining why constructor new ArrayList<>(1, 2, 3) was not realized? A: ArrayList existed in Java 1.2. Varargs were a feature introduced in Java 1.5 (along with a whole heap of other features). All of the features you really require from a vararg initialization of a list can be realized in Arrays.asList, which had to have existed around or after Java 1.5 due to its use of varargs.

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Ooh, that was kinda close, but hopefully the TNT will help them escape the pyramid.

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Great initiative from FastMail to develop, open, and spread their modern successor to IMAP. This is badly needed — I hope it catches on with client and server developers. The good news for such an effort is that there are very few influential email hosts left (and FastMail is one), and even fewer email clients. The bad news is that it’s very hard to get the remaining few to do anything.

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Solution structure of the HsapBK K+ channel voltage-sensor paddle sequence. Voltage-gated potassium channels open and close in response to changes in the membrane potential. In this study, we have determined the NMR solution structure of the putative S3b-S4 voltage-sensor paddle fragment, the part that moves to mediate voltage gating, of the HsapBK potassium channel in dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelles. This paper presents the first structure of the S3b-S4 fragment from a BK channel. Diffusion coefficients as determined from PFG NMR experiments showed that a well-defined complex between the peptide and DPC molecules was formed. The structure reveals a helix-turn-helix motif, which is in agreement with crystal structures of other voltage-gated potassium channels, thus indicating that it is feasible to study the isolated fragment. The paddle motifs generally contain several basic residues, implicated in the gating. The critical Arg residues in this structure all reside on the surface, which is in agreement with crystal structures of K(v) channels. Similarities in the structure of the S3b-S4 fragment in BK and K(v) channels as well as important differences are seen, which may be important for explaining the details in paddle movement within a bilayer.

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/* $NetBSD: tsig_test.c,v 1.5 2020/05/24 19:46:25 christos Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") * * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. * * See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional * information regarding copyright ownership. */ #if HAVE_CMOCKA #include <sched.h> /* IWYU pragma: keep */ #include <setjmp.h> #include <stdarg.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #define UNIT_TESTING #include <cmocka.h> #include <isc/mem.h> #include <isc/print.h> #include <isc/util.h> #include <dns/rdatalist.h> #include <dns/rdataset.h> #include <dns/tsig.h> #include "../tsig_p.h" #include "dnstest.h" #define CHECK(r) \ do { \ result = (r); \ if (result != ISC_R_SUCCESS) { \ goto cleanup; \ } \ } while (/*CONSTCOND*/0) #define TEST_ORIGIN "test" static int _setup(void **state) { isc_result_t result; UNUSED(state); result = dns_test_begin(NULL, false); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); return (0); } static int _teardown(void **state) { UNUSED(state); dns_test_end(); return (0); } static int debug = 0; static isc_result_t add_mac(dst_context_t *tsigctx, isc_buffer_t *buf) { dns_rdata_any_tsig_t tsig; dns_rdata_t rdata = DNS_RDATA_INIT; isc_buffer_t databuf; isc_region_t r; isc_result_t result; unsigned char tsigbuf[1024]; isc_buffer_usedregion(buf, &r); dns_rdata_fromregion(&rdata, dns_rdataclass_any, dns_rdatatype_tsig, &r); isc_buffer_init(&databuf, tsigbuf, sizeof(tsigbuf)); CHECK(dns_rdata_tostruct(&rdata, &tsig, NULL)); isc_buffer_putuint16(&databuf, tsig.siglen); isc_buffer_putmem(&databuf, tsig.signature, tsig.siglen); isc_buffer_usedregion(&databuf, &r); result = dst_context_adddata(tsigctx, &r); dns_rdata_freestruct(&tsig); cleanup: return (result); } static isc_result_t add_tsig(dst_context_t *tsigctx, dns_tsigkey_t *key, isc_buffer_t *target) { dns_compress_t cctx; dns_rdata_any_tsig_t tsig; dns_rdata_t rdata = DNS_RDATA_INIT; dns_rdatalist_t rdatalist; dns_rdataset_t rdataset; isc_buffer_t *dynbuf = NULL; isc_buffer_t databuf; isc_buffer_t sigbuf; isc_region_t r; isc_result_t result = ISC_R_SUCCESS; isc_stdtime_t now; unsigned char tsigbuf[1024]; unsigned int count; unsigned int sigsize = 0; bool invalidate_ctx = false; memset(&tsig, 0, sizeof(tsig)); CHECK(dns_compress_init(&cctx, -1, dt_mctx)); invalidate_ctx = true; tsig.common.rdclass = dns_rdataclass_any; tsig.common.rdtype = dns_rdatatype_tsig; ISC_LINK_INIT(&tsig.common, link); dns_name_init(&tsig.algorithm, NULL); dns_name_clone(key->algorithm, &tsig.algorithm); isc_stdtime_get(&now); tsig.timesigned = now; tsig.fudge = DNS_TSIG_FUDGE; tsig.originalid = 50; tsig.error = dns_rcode_noerror; tsig.otherlen = 0; tsig.other = NULL; isc_buffer_init(&databuf, tsigbuf, sizeof(tsigbuf)); isc_buffer_putuint48(&databuf, tsig.timesigned); isc_buffer_putuint16(&databuf, tsig.fudge); isc_buffer_usedregion(&databuf, &r); CHECK(dst_context_adddata(tsigctx, &r)); CHECK(dst_key_sigsize(key->key, &sigsize)); tsig.signature = isc_mem_get(dt_mctx, sigsize); isc_buffer_init(&sigbuf, tsig.signature, sigsize); CHECK(dst_context_sign(tsigctx, &sigbuf)); tsig.siglen = isc_buffer_usedlength(&sigbuf); assert_int_equal(sigsize, tsig.siglen); isc_buffer_allocate(dt_mctx, &dynbuf, 512); CHECK(dns_rdata_fromstruct(&rdata, dns_rdataclass_any, dns_rdatatype_tsig, &tsig, dynbuf)); dns_rdatalist_init(&rdatalist); rdatalist.rdclass = dns_rdataclass_any; rdatalist.type = dns_rdatatype_tsig; ISC_LIST_APPEND(rdatalist.rdata, &rdata, link); dns_rdataset_init(&rdataset); CHECK(dns_rdatalist_tordataset(&rdatalist, &rdataset)); CHECK(dns_rdataset_towire(&rdataset, &key->name, &cctx, target, 0, &count)); /* * Fixup additional record count. */ ((unsigned char *)target->base)[11]++; if (((unsigned char *)target->base)[11] == 0) { ((unsigned char *)target->base)[10]++; } cleanup: if (tsig.signature != NULL) { isc_mem_put(dt_mctx, tsig.signature, sigsize); } if (dynbuf != NULL) { isc_buffer_free(&dynbuf); } if (invalidate_ctx) { dns_compress_invalidate(&cctx); } return (result); } static void printmessage(dns_message_t *msg) { isc_buffer_t b; char *buf = NULL; int len = 1024; isc_result_t result = ISC_R_SUCCESS; if (!debug) { return; } do { buf = isc_mem_get(dt_mctx, len); isc_buffer_init(&b, buf, len); result = dns_message_totext(msg, &dns_master_style_debug, 0, &b); if (result == ISC_R_NOSPACE) { isc_mem_put(dt_mctx, buf, len); len *= 2; } else if (result == ISC_R_SUCCESS) { printf("%.*s\n", (int)isc_buffer_usedlength(&b), buf); } } while (result == ISC_R_NOSPACE); if (buf != NULL) { isc_mem_put(dt_mctx, buf, len); } } static void render(isc_buffer_t *buf, unsigned flags, dns_tsigkey_t *key, isc_buffer_t **tsigin, isc_buffer_t **tsigout, dst_context_t *tsigctx) { dns_message_t *msg = NULL; dns_compress_t cctx; isc_result_t result; result = dns_message_create(dt_mctx, DNS_MESSAGE_INTENTRENDER, &msg); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_non_null(msg); msg->id = 50; msg->rcode = dns_rcode_noerror; msg->flags = flags; /* * XXXMPA: this hack needs to be replaced with use of * dns_message_reply() at some point. */ if ((flags & DNS_MESSAGEFLAG_QR) != 0) { msg->verified_sig = 1; } if (tsigin == tsigout) { msg->tcp_continuation = 1; } if (tsigctx == NULL) { result = dns_message_settsigkey(msg, key); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_message_setquerytsig(msg, *tsigin); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); } result = dns_compress_init(&cctx, -1, dt_mctx); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_message_renderbegin(msg, &cctx, buf); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_message_renderend(msg); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); if (tsigctx != NULL) { isc_region_t r; isc_buffer_usedregion(buf, &r); result = dst_context_adddata(tsigctx, &r); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); } else { if (tsigin == tsigout && *tsigin != NULL) { isc_buffer_free(tsigin); } result = dns_message_getquerytsig(msg, dt_mctx, tsigout); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); } dns_compress_invalidate(&cctx); dns_message_destroy(&msg); } /* * Test tsig tcp-continuation validation: * Check that a simulated three message TCP sequence where the first * and last messages contain TSIGs but the intermediate message doesn't * correctly verifies. */ static void tsig_tcp_test(void **state) { const dns_name_t *tsigowner = NULL; dns_fixedname_t fkeyname; dns_message_t *msg = NULL; dns_name_t *keyname; dns_tsig_keyring_t *ring = NULL; dns_tsigkey_t *key = NULL; isc_buffer_t *buf = NULL; isc_buffer_t *querytsig = NULL; isc_buffer_t *tsigin = NULL; isc_buffer_t *tsigout = NULL; isc_result_t result; unsigned char secret[16] = { 0 }; dst_context_t *tsigctx = NULL; dst_context_t *outctx = NULL; UNUSED(state); /* isc_log_setdebuglevel(lctx, 99); */ keyname = dns_fixedname_initname(&fkeyname); result = dns_name_fromstring(keyname, "test", 0, NULL); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_tsigkeyring_create(dt_mctx, &ring); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_tsigkey_create(keyname, dns_tsig_hmacsha256_name, secret, sizeof(secret), false, NULL, 0, 0, dt_mctx, ring, &key); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_non_null(key); /* * Create request. */ isc_buffer_allocate(dt_mctx, &buf, 65535); render(buf, 0, key, &tsigout, &querytsig, NULL); isc_buffer_free(&buf); /* * Create response message 1. */ isc_buffer_allocate(dt_mctx, &buf, 65535); render(buf, DNS_MESSAGEFLAG_QR, key, &querytsig, &tsigout, NULL); /* * Process response message 1. */ result = dns_message_create(dt_mctx, DNS_MESSAGE_INTENTPARSE, &msg); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_non_null(msg); result = dns_message_settsigkey(msg, key); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_message_parse(msg, buf, 0); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); printmessage(msg); result = dns_message_setquerytsig(msg, querytsig); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_tsig_verify(buf, msg, NULL, NULL); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_int_equal(msg->verified_sig, 1); assert_int_equal(msg->tsigstatus, dns_rcode_noerror); /* * Check that we have a TSIG in the first message. */ assert_non_null(dns_message_gettsig(msg, &tsigowner)); result = dns_message_getquerytsig(msg, dt_mctx, &tsigin); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); tsigctx = msg->tsigctx; msg->tsigctx = NULL; isc_buffer_free(&buf); dns_message_destroy(&msg); result = dst_context_create(key->key, dt_mctx, DNS_LOGCATEGORY_DNSSEC, false, 0, &outctx); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_non_null(outctx); /* * Start digesting. */ result = add_mac(outctx, tsigout); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); /* * Create response message 2. */ isc_buffer_allocate(dt_mctx, &buf, 65535); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); render(buf, DNS_MESSAGEFLAG_QR, key, &tsigout, &tsigout, outctx); /* * Process response message 2. */ result = dns_message_create(dt_mctx, DNS_MESSAGE_INTENTPARSE, &msg); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_non_null(msg); msg->tcp_continuation = 1; msg->tsigctx = tsigctx; tsigctx = NULL; result = dns_message_settsigkey(msg, key); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_message_parse(msg, buf, 0); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); printmessage(msg); result = dns_message_setquerytsig(msg, tsigin); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_tsig_verify(buf, msg, NULL, NULL); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_int_equal(msg->verified_sig, 0); assert_int_equal(msg->tsigstatus, dns_rcode_noerror); /* * Check that we don't have a TSIG in the second message. */ tsigowner = NULL; assert_true(dns_message_gettsig(msg, &tsigowner) == NULL); tsigctx = msg->tsigctx; msg->tsigctx = NULL; isc_buffer_free(&buf); dns_message_destroy(&msg); /* * Create response message 3. */ isc_buffer_allocate(dt_mctx, &buf, 65535); render(buf, DNS_MESSAGEFLAG_QR, key, &tsigout, &tsigout, outctx); result = add_tsig(outctx, key, buf); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); /* * Process response message 3. */ result = dns_message_create(dt_mctx, DNS_MESSAGE_INTENTPARSE, &msg); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_non_null(msg); msg->tcp_continuation = 1; msg->tsigctx = tsigctx; tsigctx = NULL; result = dns_message_settsigkey(msg, key); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_message_parse(msg, buf, 0); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); printmessage(msg); /* * Check that we had a TSIG in the third message. */ assert_non_null(dns_message_gettsig(msg, &tsigowner)); result = dns_message_setquerytsig(msg, tsigin); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); result = dns_tsig_verify(buf, msg, NULL, NULL); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_int_equal(msg->verified_sig, 1); assert_int_equal(msg->tsigstatus, dns_rcode_noerror); if (tsigin != NULL) { isc_buffer_free(&tsigin); } result = dns_message_getquerytsig(msg, dt_mctx, &tsigin); assert_int_equal(result, ISC_R_SUCCESS); isc_buffer_free(&buf); dns_message_destroy(&msg); if (outctx != NULL) { dst_context_destroy(&outctx); } if (querytsig != NULL) { isc_buffer_free(&querytsig); } if (tsigin != NULL) { isc_buffer_free(&tsigin); } if (tsigout != NULL) { isc_buffer_free(&tsigout); } dns_tsigkey_detach(&key); if (ring != NULL) { dns_tsigkeyring_detach(&ring); } } /* Tests the dns__tsig_algvalid function */ static void algvalid_test(void **state) { UNUSED(state); assert_true(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_HMACMD5)); assert_true(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_HMACSHA1)); assert_true(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_HMACSHA224)); assert_true(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_HMACSHA256)); assert_true(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_HMACSHA384)); assert_true(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_HMACSHA512)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algvalid(DST_ALG_GSSAPI)); } /* Tests the dns__tsig_algfromname function */ static void algfromname_test(void **state) { UNUSED(state); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_HMACMD5_NAME), DST_ALG_HMACMD5); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA1_NAME), DST_ALG_HMACSHA1); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA224_NAME), DST_ALG_HMACSHA224); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA256_NAME), DST_ALG_HMACSHA256); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA384_NAME), DST_ALG_HMACSHA384); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA512_NAME), DST_ALG_HMACSHA512); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_GSSAPI_NAME), DST_ALG_GSSAPI); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(DNS_TSIG_GSSAPIMS_NAME), DST_ALG_GSSAPI); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algfromname(dns_rootname), 0); } /* Tests the dns__tsig_algnamefromname function */ /* * Helper function to create a dns_name_t from a string and see if * the dns__tsig_algnamefromname function can correctly match it against the * static table of known algorithms. */ static void test_name(const char *name_string, const dns_name_t *expected) { dns_name_t name; dns_name_init(&name, NULL); assert_int_equal(dns_name_fromstring(&name, name_string, 0, dt_mctx), ISC_R_SUCCESS); assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algnamefromname(&name), expected); dns_name_free(&name, dt_mctx); } static void algnamefromname_test(void **state) { UNUSED(state); /* test the standard algorithms */ test_name("hmac-md5.sig-alg.reg.int", DNS_TSIG_HMACMD5_NAME); test_name("hmac-sha1", DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA1_NAME); test_name("hmac-sha224", DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA224_NAME); test_name("hmac-sha256", DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA256_NAME); test_name("hmac-sha384", DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA384_NAME); test_name("hmac-sha512", DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA512_NAME); test_name("gss-tsig", DNS_TSIG_GSSAPI_NAME); test_name("gss.microsoft.com", DNS_TSIG_GSSAPIMS_NAME); /* try another name that isn't a standard algorithm name */ assert_int_equal(dns__tsig_algnamefromname(dns_rootname), NULL); } /* Tests the dns__tsig_algallocated function */ static void algallocated_test(void **state) { UNUSED(state); /* test the standard algorithms */ assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACMD5_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA1_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA224_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA256_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA384_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA512_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA512_NAME)); assert_false(dns__tsig_algallocated(DNS_TSIG_HMACSHA512_NAME)); /* try another name that isn't a standard algorithm name */ assert_true(dns__tsig_algallocated(dns_rootname)); } int main(void) { const struct CMUnitTest tests[] = { cmocka_unit_test_setup_teardown(tsig_tcp_test, _setup, _teardown), cmocka_unit_test(algvalid_test), cmocka_unit_test(algfromname_test), cmocka_unit_test_setup_teardown(algnamefromname_test, _setup, _teardown), cmocka_unit_test(algallocated_test), }; return (cmocka_run_group_tests(tests, NULL, NULL)); } #else /* HAVE_CMOCKA */ #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("1..0 # Skipped: cmocka not available\n"); return (0); } #endif /* if HAVE_CMOCKA */

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The present invention relates to a novel key board switch unit with illumination suitable for use even in a dark place. Many modern electronic appliances, e.g. electronic pocketable calculators and the like, are provided with a key board switch unit for operating the instrument. There are growing occasions of operating such a key board switch unit in a relatively dark place such as in automobiles at night so that many of the key board switch units are provided with a means for illumination. The most simple method for illuminating a key board switch unit is the illumination of the board from above with a suitable lamp. Alternatively it is also conventionally practiced that the surface of the key top is coated with a phosphorescence or fluorescence material which emits visible light in a dark place to assist the recognition of the key board by the operator. Further, the pushing areas of the key top are made with a transparent or translucent material and illuminated with a suitable light source installed just below the pushing area of the key top. The first method of illumination from above is the simplest in principle and sufficient lighting is readily obtained. This method is, however, impracticable when a very thin design of the key board switch unit is desired. In addition, complete shielding of stray light is sometimes very difficult in such a top illumination bringing about troubles such as glaringness when the key board switch unit is used in the room of an automobile or in a photographic dark room. The second method of the use of a phosphorescent material is defective in the insufficient intensity of light emitted from the phosphorescent material so that it is not always suitable as an illuminating means of a key board switch unit. The third method of the illumination from below the pushing areas of the key top also has a problem when a compact design of the unit is desired and uniform illumination of all of the pushing areas of the key top is obtained only with a considerable number of the light sources so that the method is not applicable when the electronic appliance having the key board switch unit is very thin as pocketable electronic calculators. Thus, it has been an eager demand to develop a key board swtich unit with illumination free from the above described problems in the prior art and many attempts have been made therefor but without success.

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<?php /** * @author Joas Schilling <[email protected]> * @author Robin Appelman <[email protected]> * @author Thomas Müller <[email protected]> * * @copyright Copyright (c) 2018, ownCloud GmbH * @license AGPL-3.0 * * This code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, * as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> * */ namespace OCA\DAV\Tests\unit\Connector\Sabre\RequestTest; /** * Class PartFileInRootUploadTest * * @group DB * * @package OCA\DAV\Tests\unit\Connector\Sabre\RequestTest */ class PartFileInRootUploadTest extends UploadTest { protected $original; protected function setUp(): void { $config = \OC::$server->getConfig(); $this->original = $config->getSystemValue('part_file_in_storage', null); $config->setSystemValue('part_file_in_storage', false); parent::setUp(); } protected function tearDown(): void { if ($this->original !== null) { $config = \OC::$server->getConfig(); $this->original = $config->setSystemValue('part_file_in_storage', $this->original); } parent::tearDown(); } }

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Technology for Better Business and Higher Standards of Life A while back to debug at my application for resource file bugs pointed by QA I used to write a console application which reads all the resource files, generate HTMLized Excel file ( :) ) to compare availability of strings and what is causing a particular language setting to behave differently in the application. Last week, I just had an idea and a bit of time to improve upon this to create a simple (rather very simple) Windows forms application which does the following: Load the base resource file (System Locale) Generate a grid containing the key value pairs in the resource file. List matching other language files into the listbox. As and when other languages are chosen, update the grid with the entries from the selected languages. Indicate missing keys in the grid with a different color. Provide the legendary Excel Export option as a comma-delimited file. I have shared the application as an opensource project in Codeplex at this URL:

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"(Heavy breathing)" "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire." "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast and his kingdom was full of darkness..." "(Breathing unevenly) No..." "The enemy is closer than you think." "(Heavy breathing) No!" "No!" " No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" " (Bird shrieks)" "(Whimpering)" "The King's doctor at once!" "(Heavy breathing)" "(Thunder)" "(Intro music)" "♪ I'm the King of my own land ♪" "♪ Facing tempests of dust ♪" "♪ I'll fight until the end ♪" "♪ Creatures of my dreams rise up and dance with me ♪" "♪ Now and forever ♪" "♪ I'm your King ♪" "His humors are out of balance." "(Masson) (Sighing)" "(Masson) Majesty, drink this to help you sleep." "(Masson) It's a herbal cordial to allay your pain and procure your rest." "Laudanum, saffron and bruised cloves." "(Masson) I beg you, heed the counsel of your medical advisers." "(Louis breathes heavily)" "What do you say?" "Have you ever had a fever?" "I have, Your Majesty." "What measures did you take?" "To permit my body to cure itself, it was necessary to purge." "There's a herb, sagewort." "Known as sweet wormword." "Fetch your remedy, but quickly and with a calm air." " No one must know of his condition." " (Masson) Sire." "(Breathing)" "(Chuckling)" "(Chuckling)" "(Music)" "Love is in your future." "Twice as much as you might think." "(Scoffing) I'm off to water the garden." "(Grunting)" "I think that's a no." "(Grunting)" "(Yawning)" "(Coughs)" "(Yawning)" "You did not respond to my last message." "(Grunting) Well, to be perfectly honest it didn't seem pressing." "It was a busy week." "Fail me again and your next piss will be sitting down!" "You have my full attention." "(Heavy breathing)" "Read and follow... to the letter." "Don't breathe." "(Gasping)" "(signing)" "Were you raised in a cattle shed?" "Why are you here?" "Come at once." "The King's Circle." "Wake my wife." "Do it now." "(Tense music)" "(Panting and moaning)" "(Grunting)" "(Sighing, panting)" "What will you see just before the end?" "(Panting)" "The face of my enemy." "(signing)" "I've always dreamed the same dream." "I'm in a great avenue of evergreens, sitting in wet grass," "gazing through the pine cones at a canopy of sky." "Then if I were you." "I would stay indoors." "(Laughing)" "(Knocking)" "(Knocking)" " Speak." " (Man) The King's Circle." "(Knocking)" "(Tense music)" "(Tense music) (Footsteps)" "I must speak to you in private." "You're still drunk." "It can wait." "But the gravity of my need..." "All needs of yours weigh the same." "(Panting, stammering)" "A great tide is stirring." "It pertains to your future, your place at its center." "Go to bed." "Please." "Philippa..." "Philippe!" "In the King's book of names, you'll find a circle of trust, a list of those he believes in his heart are the most loyal, faithful and true." "(Colbert) Your names are on that list." "(Colbert) An unbroken circle of trust." "(Colbert) We all know here what is at stake." "How is my King?" "The fever is consuming him." "Protocol now demands we begin work on the issue of succession." "I will not hear it." "He is stronger than a malady, stronger than a hundred fevers." "Not this one clearly." "Your words are comforting." "My King values expediency over sympathy." "(Colbert) As we hope for the best, we must nevertheless plan for the worst." "(Rohan) Where did this distemper come from?" "Is it poison?" "(Fabien) I'll root out the cause." "I hope you have more success." "More?" "If a sick man gets to the King I don't call it victory." "The Dauphin is direct successor but would require a regent." "I would argue a young King requires a council of elders, with experience of government." "(Colbert) Protocol's clear." "If the King..." "Do not say it." "Dies, or if he is incapable of exercising his duties, a regent shall be appointed." "Who?" "That is the choice before us." "What is the news?" "We did not see the King at mass and you know people gossip." "Hunting accident, broke his leg." "It will take weeks." "Your Majesty, please!" "Rumors are flying around court." "The truth might stop them." "Why such secrecy?" "So that rumors do not start." " What would happen if..." " No "if"." "He will be well." "Yes, of course." "Jezebel!" "(Smashing of glass)" " Delilah!" " Stop it!" "You may have shaved my seven locks and sold me to the Philistines but I'm not yet on my knees." "If the King's hair hurts perhaps it was the wine." "Eat the beast's fur that bit you." "But who wants fluff for breakfast?" "(Jacket hits him)" "Was I out of turn?" "Come now!" "How is our King?" "(Sighing) Please speak." "Why all the secrecy?" "Speak!" "You must vow to me." " On my father's life." " He's dead." " My mother's?" " Forget it." "(Sighing) I cannot help my tongue." "Please!" "I see your distress and it pains me." "(Sighing) Allow me to share your burden." "Speak!" "My brother is very sick." "I always said you'd make a marvelous King!" "(inhales) Stop!" "So you're serious." "Goodness!" "He is gravely ill." "And if he were to die, it might be possible that I will be regent." "God in heaven!" "I had no idea." "Not a word to anyone." "This is a testing time but I know with you by my side," " I can overcome anything." " Hmm, yes, of course." "Now, I must have air." "Come with me, please." "I cannot." "I have to, um, think." "Very well." "He is in my prayers as are YOU." "(Clicking fingers)" "(Clicking fingers)" "What did you mean when you said "a great tide is stirring?"" "Did I say that?" "Hmm!" "I must have been drunk." "(Shouting in distance)" "(Coughing)" "(Gurgling) (Coughing, spluttering)" "(Horse galloping)" "Father?" "Father!" "(crying)" "Help me!" "Please, he's dying." " What happened?" " I don't know." "(Groaning)" "You must come." "The King." "He will perish." "As will your King." "Save your father or save France." "The choice is yours." " The King?" " He ordered my eyes to the door but he's not ordered them back." "Stay here." "(Whispering indistinctly)" "(Bontemps) Move." "Move!" "(Whispering indistinctly)" "Shut the doors." "Close all the shutters." "Door!" "Door!" "Ah, there you are." "I can't decide if this will be a courante a sarabande or a passacaille." "You must return to bed." "(Bontemps) Your doctor is here." "I've created a new dance, Bontemps, and I wish my court to perform it." "Very well, Sire." "Everyone must learn it now." "Bring me a pen and paper and a gardener." " A gardener?" " Yes, my gardener Jacques." "He lost his hand in Malines." "Bring him here." "I see this dance unfolding in a garden, an orangerie full of blossom." "I didn't see you at our recent ballet." "I dance as commanded by you." "Then do so now." "Dance for me now." "Follow me." "First, a balancé." "Twice going forward and then a pas de bourrée." "Then another balancé going backwards, then another pas de bourée." "(Humming)" "If these are your steps, Sire, then your dance is a passacaille." "You're a man of quality Bontemps." "But I do not trust you," "I do not trust you at all." " Sire..." " I do not know him!" "Your Majesty, please!" "Where is my gardener?" "I need him." "Bring me Jacques!" "Guards!" "Please, bring me Jacques!" "Guards, bring me Jacques!" "They mean to kill me!" "They mean to kill me!" "Bring me Jacques!" "Water for the King!" "(Whimpering)" "My gardener will know what to do... (Bontemps) Shh..." "Shh... (Heavy breathing)" "His fever grows stronger." "(Bontemps) Your Majesty, the gardener." "(Footsteps)" "Tell me a story about my father." "Your mother suckled him young before you, which makes you milk brothers, does it not?" "A story, then." "Many years ago, an emissary from Japan visited our shores." "(Jacques) He brought a gift from China for your father, an ancient text that he said that every general in the emperor's army had read." "(Breathing)" "The text was called the Art of War." "(Jacques) So the story went around the palace of this most vital maxim:" ""Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak."" "(Coughing)" "Out." "(Coughing)" "Out!" "Out!" "(Coughing)" "(Praying in Latin)" "(signing)" "Yes, Madame de Clermont!" "Forgive me." "I'd always assumed your office was in the east wing." "It is." "As promised Monsieur Colbert, our proof of noble heritage." "Ah!" " Good." "I will review it in due course." " Good day." "(Retching)" "(Coughing)" "We can't put his life in a child's hands." "Hardly a child." "My brother should be in Paris." "I have readied my own carriage." " I'll take him." " He can't travel." " An hour at most." " (Marie) It may kill him." "It is this palace that is killing him." "(Grunting)" "(Breathing)" "I was just in the laundry, I found this in one of the pockets." "The same shapes as you have in your book." "Don't go anywhere." "A meeting is planned for today. ls my horse ready?" " Fed and watered this morning!" " You've done well." " There's no one here!" " (Fabien) Yes, I noticed that myself." "(signing)" "Cassel, we are risking our lives being here." "I had to conceal my horse half a mile away." "You're one to talk." "Why the urgency?" "You didn't write it?" "It appears we are not the only ones bound by our intent." "Which is what, exactly?" "Revolution." "This is a monumental risk." "What if these were intercepted or deciphered?" "They have been deciphered." "Then our location is known?" "(Beatrice) Once a codex is broken it offers opportunity." "I wrote a new note, made sure it was found." "It proposes a rendezvous today on the other side of Paris, so we are quite safe here." "Cousin?" "(Beatrice) A great moment is upon us:" "the King has a fever and his sickness grows." "(Beatrice) We must plan quickly now for our future." "We have powerful and wealthy friends, some already at court." "Others, abroad, are watching very closely, all of them standing, ready to help." "A support message from the Dutch Republic." "A new captain general is rising in power." "William of Orange will be stadtholder commander of armies, sea admiral." "And he vows here to support whoever moves against King Louis, not just with words, but with money, materials, influence and arms." "I've heard enough." "Thank you for the puppet show." "Chevalier de Lorraine!" "Do not confuse the woman you have known with the woman you see now." "A gathering in Paris awaits you." "Canvas your supporters there." "(Beatrice) We know there are many." "(Coughing)" "The fever has broken." "The court mustn't know about my condition." "But surely your brother must be informed." "Close all the doors." "Do it now." "The issue of regent remains." "We know your position, of course." "Will no one vouch for me?" "It is not you who lacks merit, Your Highness." "Our concerns lie instead on those who would be around you." "Ah!" "Why not just say his name?" "We need someone whose behaviour is more suited to a King, someone who is his own man." "I hope I make myself clear." "Perfectly." "Her Majesty and Monsieur Colbert would, to my mind, ensure a resilient transition." "(signing)" "(Tense music)" "Then it is settled." "What are you doing?" "(Chevalier) Rumors make me giddy." "I'm going to Paris for a few days to un-giddy myself." "(Clicks)" "You said I'd make a great King." "And you would." "This is not idle chat." "What is this?" " You made a vow to me!" " And I kept it." "Then be truthful in return." "Have you been under a rock?" "We are on the verge of change." "There are whispers growing louder every day." "People are tired of how it is." "They wish to see change, one that would not deny the monarchy but share in its burden." "You can see it in your brother now." "One man cannot rule the land." "He's drowning in it," " (Chevalier) and you can save him." " You tread a dangerous path." "The only danger is smelling smoke and not acknowledging a fire." " You side with the nobles?" " I side with you just as the soldiers do." "Would you side with me?" " You cannot know what you're asking." " I know what I'm asking." "Until death forces my hand," "I cannot answer." "Very well." "But know this:" "Our future has changed, no matter what happens now." "My trunk!" "Sire, we rejoice at your recovery." "(Louis) Send tailors I want clothes." "As for my court, this is the message I want to convey." "(Bontemps) I am saddened to report the King's health has not improved." "He awakened before breakfast and passed on instructions that government continue under his word." "How can he make decisions in such a condition?" "The King wishes France to be informed immediately of his condition so they might offer their prayers." "Has he said anything?" "He has..." "The court should learn a new dance." "A dance?" "It is one he has composed himself in his moments of peace... to raise our spirits" "in anticipation of his recovery." "Colbert, tell Monsieur Lully to create a melody." "(Sniffling) (Whimpering)" "Your sacrifice won't be forgotten." "(Louis) My deep sympathy for your loss." "I know now my replacement for your father." "What is his name?" "I know that he stands before me now." "Many will oppose you, who would rather I chose one of my physicians." "(Louis) Be deaf to their judgements." "Will you accept the job?" "(Louis) If the answer is yes there is no going back." "Your life as you know it will be changed forever." "I accept." "Then it is yours." "Medicine is a fine career." "(Louis) Get Mlle de la Vallière." "(Whispering indistinctly)" "Where's Chevalier?" "I haven't seen him today." "He rides to Paris." "A gathering of nobles." "Does he indeed?" "What are you doing?" "Did you not hear?" "The King has a dance and expects us to know it." " Why are you here?" " Getting Mme Rochefoucauld's letter." " This is her chamber?" " No, this is Mme de Clermont." "Mme de la Rochefoucauld is down the hallway." "Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry!" "Excuse me." "Wait!" "I hoped you might stay here, you might think of this as home." "I cannot." "Not even for your children?" "For their sakes and for mine," "I must show contrition for my life." "You may go." "Thank you," "Majesty." "Thank you with all my heart." "Arrangements will be made." "(Giggling)" "Mother, I have missed you." "Every time I look for you, I am rushed back to my lady." "Your duty to me is to do well with her." "Do not think of me at all." "I found a chambermaid in your room." " Chambermaid?" " Yes." "Looking for Mme Rochefoucauld's letter but ended up in your room." "I went to the chapel." "Cassel was in conversation with new nobles, Anjou, Poitier..." " Who else?" " Mme de Clermont." "(Sighing) Since the court knew of the King's condition, conversations between these individuals increased markedly." "Anjou and Poitiers... too you say, both to Cassel." "I asked the stables, Potters, Anjou are riding to Paris." "(Fabien) Not the only ones." "Chevalier de Lorraine also reached Paris this morning." " About Clermont..." " (Fabien) Later." "Where are you going?" "Christ Jesus, life eternal in the bosom of the Father... life of souls made of your own likeness," "protect my brother in his time of need." "My God!" "(Laughs)" "I was told you were dying!" "I was but then I recovered." " You didn't tell me?" " I told no one." "(Philippe) Why?" "So I might see upon who I can depend." " You did not include me." " I did not." " You do not trust your own brother?" " Not the company he keeps." "(Deep breath)" "Chevalier may seem blithe and glib, but he has a backbone." "I wish you saw what I do:" "He's a man of honor." "You are blind to his failings and dumb to his faults." "Do not say such things." "A conspiracy was uncovered, nobles plotting against me as I am ill in bed." "(Louis) Chevalier is a ring leader." "All of them will be arrested." "Impossible." " He's no conspirator." " Very true." "He's a traitor and will be treated as such." "(Sobbing)" "To Versailles!" "(Fabien) Good idea." "(Grunting)" "The Duc d'Orléans will have your head for this for sure." "(Chevalier) When your neck's on the block you know what he will say?" "(Fabien) No." "(Spluttering)" "In any case," "I hope you're fond of horses." "(Breathing unevenly)" "(Gasping, choking, grunting)" "(Panting)" "Burn in hell you Catholic cunt." "(Spitting)" "(Coughing)" "I found a little something to aid us." "(Fabien) Aid us with what?" "(Beatrice) Endurance." "A love potion." "When I look at you I need nothing else." "Oh, I'm the same." "But I think it might be fun." "Come." "(Moaning)" "(Retching)" "(signing)" "(Whispering indistinctly)" "(Classical music)" "(Courtiers exclaim)" "(Classical music)" "(Coughing)" "(Coughing)" "(Choral music)" "Thank you." "(Choral music)" " (Man) Ha!" "Ha!" " (Nobleman) (Screaming)" " (Nobleman) (Shouting indistinctly) - (Priest) (Praying in Latin)" "(Screaming)" "(Screaming)" "(Whimpering)" "(Music)" "(Music)"

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A vampire scare in Malawi is reportedly responsible for mob violence that's resulted in the deaths of at least five people -- and prompted the United Nations to pull its staff in the area. The eruption of vampire-driven vigilante violence in the African nation came after rumors surfaced in September that real-life bloodsuckers were creating havoc. Those reports prompted the formation of lynch mobs who've accused people of vampirism, according to a U.N. Department on Safety and Security report obtained by Reuters. “These districts have severely been affected by the ongoing stories of blood sucking and possible existence of vampires,” the agency said regarding districts in the southern part of the country. The report said roving mobs searching for vampires have been mounting road blocks, raising security concerns for U.N. workers. The Acting U.N. Resident Coordinator, Florence Rolle, told Reuters in an email “some U.N. staff have relocated while others are still in the districts depending on locations of their operations,” but Rolle did not provide specific numbers of relocated workers. The rumors of vampires may have originated in neighboring Mozambique, according to the U.N. report, which recommended the “temporary suspension of U.N. activities in the area until the situation is normalized.” The president of Malawi said the reports of mob violence over vampire fears were “distressing and agonizing." “This development has been of grave concern to the President and the entire Government,” President Peter Mutharika's office said in a statement. Belief in witchcraft is widespread in rural Malawi where many aid agencies and NGOs work, and a spate of violence linked to vampire rumors also broke out in 2002, Reuters reported. Malawi is one of the world’s poorest countries, and the country's economy "depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations," according to the CIA World Factbook. "Population growth, increasing pressure on agricultural lands, corruption, and the scourge of HIV/AIDS pose major problems for Malawi," according to the CIA.

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VELUX DKL FK06 1100 Blackout Blind Dark Blue VELUX DKL FK06 1100 Blackout Blind Dark Blue The VELUX dark blue blackout blind guarantees darkness whenever you want it. VELUX classic design is ideal for use in bedrooms or other rooms you need to keep in the dark.The blackout blinds have the following features : • Works even when the sun is shining• Fits perfectively with most VELUX roof windows• Tested and proven to provide the best blackout effect on the market• Can be purchased to operate manually, electrically or solar powered Further Detail VELUX blackout blind can keep the light out of any room you want. The blind fits perfectly with your VELUX roof window in order to create a tight, lightproof seal. VELUX blackout blinds are ideal for bedrooms, home cinemas and any other room that you want to keep dark. All VELUX blinds are easy to install and come with the VELUX 3 year guarantee. This website requires cookies to provide all of its features. For more information on what data is contained in the cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.To accept cookies from this site, please click the Allow button below.

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Using combination therapy to thwart drug resistance. Drug combination therapy is a promising strategy to extend the lifespan of our antimicrobials. Drug combinations used in treatment must be carefully selected to minimize the evolution of resistance, either by carefully determining drug pairs that hinder the acquisition of resistance mechanisms, or by screening for combinations that inhibit growth and show reduced vulnerability to resistance. Modeling of interactions between drugs has provided intriguing insights into strategies for combination therapy deployment. Ultimately, more rigorous clinical trials need to be performed to evaluate the laboratory and modeling results and advance treatment options.

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Magnetic resonance imaging of optic gliomas. We compared magnetic resonance imaging of the optic nerves and chiasm with computed tomography in four patients (a 17-year-old girl, a 14-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl, and a 22-year-old woman) with biopsy-proven or suspected optic gliomas. Orbital abnormalities were effectively viewed by both techniques. Gliomatous and normal optic nerves had similar spin-echo magnetic resonance imaging characteristics. Magnetic resonance was superior to contrast-enhanced computed tomography for identification of the intracranial optic nerves, chiasm, and optic tracts, but computed tomography delineated orbital anatomic and spatial relationships better.

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What's New The DMHC issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to clarify health plans must cover COVID-19 tests that are FDA approved or authorized, or approved by the state, without prior authorization and at no cost to the enrollee. The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) is seeking a dynamic, creative, collaborative and consumer-oriented contracted Clinical Consultant to serve as the DMHC’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO). CMO will assist with ensuring health plan medical, behavioral health and administrative compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements in order to drive improvement in clinical outcomes for health plan enrollees and to improve the DMHC’s effectiveness. For more information, please read this CMO Job Announcement. Interested candidates must submit required documents by June 30, 2020. The DMHC issued an All Plan Letter (APL) in March directing health plans to ensure Californians can access necessary medical care through telehealth when medically appropriate. This includes directing health plans to reimburse providers for care provided through telehealth at the same rate as in-person care and ensuring enrollee cost-sharing is not changed for telehealth services. Following several questions from plans and providers, the DMHC issued All Plan Letter (APL) 20-013 - Billing for Telehealth Services; Telehealth for the Delivery of Services with a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document. This includes information on provider billing during the COVID-19 State of Emergency to decrease administrative burdens on providers and plans. As the state of California is taking action to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) joined with Covered California and the Department of Health Care Services to make sure Californians have a ready path to health care coverage. The DMHC provided guidance to health plans on the special-enrollment period, including on and off-exchange health plans. This will ensure consumers enrolling in the entire individual market in California will have access to coverage during the pandemic emergency. “We are working together to protect the health and safety of Californians during this pandemic,” said DMHC Director Shelley Rouillard. “This includes making sure that Californians are able to access health care coverage. Opening a special-enrollment period due to COVID-19 offers new coverage options to Californians when they need it most.” The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) is seeking a dynamic, creative, collaborative and consumer-oriented contracted Clinical Consultant to serve as the DMHC’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The CMO will assist with ensuring health plan medical, behavioral health and administrative compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements in order to drive improvement in clinical outcomes for health plan enrollees and to improve the DMHC’s effectiveness. For more information, please read this CMO Job Announcement. Interested candidates must submit required documents by May 8, 2020. Under the direction of Governor Gavin Newsom, the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) issued an All Plan Letter directing all full-service commercial and Medi-Cal plans regulated by the Department to immediately reduce cost-sharing to zero for all medically necessary screening and testing for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This includes waiving cost-sharing for emergency room, urgent care or provider office visits when the purpose of the visit is to be screened and tested for COVID-19. The need for COVID-19 testing is based on medical necessity, a clinical determination made on a case by case basis by medical professionals. The American Kidney Fund (AKF) has announced it is ending financial assistance funds for Californians in need. The following fact sheet includes information on alternative options patients can explore and how to get help with these other health coverage options. The Department of Managed Health Care 2018 annual report and infographic are now available online. Both of these documents highlight the DMHC’s activities during 2018 and include key statistics about the Department.

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Tennessee Titans wide receiver Nate Washington (85) collides with back judge Billy Smith (2) as Washington catches a 77-yard touchdown pass against the New York Jets in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Defending for the Jets is cornerback Antonio Cromartie (31). (AP Photo/Wade Payne) FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) -- Geno Smith walked up to his teammates on the New York Jets' defense after another turnover-filled performance and said he was sorry. For two more interceptions. For two more fumbles. And, for letting another game slip away. ''I felt that I owed the defense an apology,'' the rookie quarterback said Monday. ''I just wanted to talk to those guys and let them know that I was aware of my mistakes and that I wanted to clean them up and that I will clean them up.'' Smith had a miserable game in the Jets' 38-13 loss at Tennessee on Sunday as New York fell to 2-2. His four turnovers directly resulted in 28 points for the Titans. ''It's just taking ownership to your mistakes and manning up,'' he said. ''I think guys respect that more than anything.'' Smith has eight interceptions and three lost fumbles, tying him with the Giants' Eli Manning for most turnovers in the league. There was lots of talk by the Jets in the offseason about limiting mistakes after Mark Sanchez led the league with 52 turnovers over the last two years. Unfortunately for the Jets, it's a new season and a new quarterback, but the same results so far. ''A lot falls on my shoulders as far as taking care of the ball, but that's something I have to do,'' Smith said. ''I know that I've been coached hard. No one wants to make those mistakes. ''It's something that has to stop now in order for us to progress and to get better as an offense and as a team.'' Despite Smith's struggles, coach Rex Ryan isn't considering benching him in favor of the inexperienced Matt Simms or veteran Brady Quinn. ''It's not a thought at this point right now,'' Ryan said. ''Not a thought.'' Sanchez, meanwhile, is on the injured reserve list with a designation to return with a shoulder injury. He has so far chosen to rehabilitate the injury rather than have surgery, so there's a slim chance he could play later this season. But until then, it appears it's Smith. Turnovers and all. Both Smith and Ryan pointed at a few of the five sacks, and how Smith needed to get rid of the ball quicker, even if it was to just throw it into the ground. The offensive line was inconsistent, too, giving Smith loads of time on some plays, while collapsing immediately on others. As for the fumbles, Smith acknowledged he needs to make sure he keeps both hands on the ball when he scrambles. He had a 3-yard run for a first down on a third-down play in the second quarter, but had the ball tomahawked out of his hand as Tennessee recovered - and later scored a touchdown. ''It's just one of those habits you need to break in order for this team to be the team that we want to be,'' Smith said. ''A part of that is my job to take care of the ball and put two hands on it.'' Ryan, however, refused to place all the blame on Smith for the team's inconsistent performances through the first four games. A week after racking up a team-record 20 penalties in a 27-20 victory over Buffalo, the Jets had 10 more at Tennessee. So there will likely be plenty more penalty pushups at practice this week. Even the defense, ranked No. 2 in the league, had some subpar moments. The Jets also have caused only two turnovers, second least in the NFL, something Ryan said also needs to improve. ''We've got to fix a lot of different things,'' Ryan said. ''Penalties are obviously one. We have to take care of the football better. We've got to really look at what we're doing, and are we putting our players in the best situation? We've got to take a hard look. Not just with the players, but the coaches as well. ''And that's exactly what we're going to do.'' There are some health concerns on offense with wide receivers Stephen Hill (concussion) and Santonio Holmes (hamstring) dealing with injuries that leave uncertain their status for the Jets' next game at Atlanta next Monday night. Ryan said Hill is going through the NFL's concussion protocol after getting hit in the head by Michael Griffin on the Jets' second offensive play - an interception thrown by Smith. Running back Chris Ivory remains sidelined with a hamstring injury and his status is also uncertain, but the Jets' backfield should get a boost from the return of Mike Goodson. The versatile running back finished serving a four-game suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy, and could serve as a pass-catching threat and kick returner. ''Words can't even express how excited I am,'' Goodson said, ''just being able to be back out there.'' --- AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org

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Various electronic apparatuses, such as portable telephones and personal computers, have a small size and high performance, and accordingly, a switch device used in such apparatuses is required to be small, thin, and operate reliably. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a conventional switch device 501. Slide switch 1 includes case 502 made of insulating resin, lever 3 made of insulating resin, and cover 4 made of thin metal plate. Case 502 has a substantially box shape having an opening in an upper surface of the case. Lever 3 protrudes towards a front from case 502. Cover 4 covers the upper surface of case 502. Switch contacts, such as a fixed contact and a movable contact, are accommodated in case 502. Upon lever 3 sliding in left and right directions, these switch contacts are electrically connected and disconnected. Plural terminals 5 connected to switch contacts protrude from both sides of a lower surface of case 502. Plural wiring patterns are formed on upper and lower surfaces of wiring board 6. Plural lands 7 are provided on the upper surface of wiring board 6. Terminal 5 of slide switch 1 is connected to land 7 by, e.g. soldering. Slide switch 1 is mounted to an anterior edge of wiring board 6 while lever 3 protrudes towards the front, thus providing the switch device 501. Switch device 501 is mounted behind an operating panel of an electronic apparatus while lever 3 protrudes from the operating panel. Terminal 5 of slide switch 1 is connected electrically to an electronic circuit of the electronic apparatus via the wiring pattern on wiring board 6, a connector, or a lead wire connected to the wiring pattern. Lever 3 protruding from the operating panel is slid in the left or right direction, the switch contacts in case 502 are electrically connected and disconnected. An electrical signal due to the electrical connection and disconnection of the switch contacts is supplied from terminal 5 to the electronic circuit of the electronic apparatus via, e.g. the wiring pattern, thereby switching between various functions of the electronic apparatus. Lever 3 of slide switch 1 is activated with a force of about 1N to 3N as well as a push button of another switch, such as a push switch including a movable contact having a dome shape. Upon being activated, the displacement of lever 3 is large and ranges from about 2 mm to 3 mm, while the displacement of the push switch ranges from about 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm. When a large force is applied to lever 3 while being activated, the force applied to case 502 may cause terminal 5 to be peeled from land 7, thus making electrical connection between terminal 5 and land 7 unstable or causing switch 1 to be displaced thereby preventing switch 1 from operating reliably. A case 502 may accommodate therein a spring for restoring lever 3 to its original position by its elastic restoring force when a hand is released after manipulating lever 3. In the case that slide switch 1 is such an auto-return type slide switch, the spring may produce a shock causing the above problem. In switch device 501 including slide switch 1, claws provided on a chassis of the electronic apparatus contact right and left sides of switch 1 in order to avoid such problem, hence causing the structure of switch device 501 to be complicated.

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Q: Kill running background jobs inside a shell script I have created a shell script that runs multiple processes in the background, and at the end listens for the user's keyboard, when enter is pressed, it kills the previously created processes. Something like : #!/bin/sh process_1 & process_2 & process_3 & read -p "PRESS [ENTER] TO TERMINATE PROCESSES." PRESSKEY kill -2 `jobs -p` Notice that I run the processes in the background (the later &), I thought that when I do something like : kill -2 `jobs -p` All the jobs running in the background would be killed, but it actually tells me that my command is invalid, so I assume that jobs -p doesn't return anything. Any idea on how to kill process_1 process_2 and process_3 ?? Thanks in advance. A: You can store the PIDs in a space separated list and kill that: process_1 & pids="${pids-} $!" process_2 & pids="${pids-} $!" process_3 & pids="${pids-} $!" read -p "PRESS [ENTER] TO TERMINATE PROCESSES." PRESSKEY kill -2 $pids # Without quotes to make the PIDs separate arguments (The ${pids-} syntax is to avoid errors when using set -o nounset.)

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John Steffensen has rekindled his love for the track and patched up his relationship with Athletics Australia as he strives to regain his place as the country's leading 400m sprinter. The dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist and relay silver medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics is back home in Perth preparing for the Qantas Athletics Tour. He is expected to compete in the Perth leg, the Go for 2&5 Track Classic, at Mt Claremont on February 11. The 29-year-old, whose career has been dogged by controversy, said he had made changes and surrounded himself with the right people to achieve his goals. Lack of dedication prevented him from improving on the 44.73sec. he produced in winning Commonwealth Games gold in Melbourne in 2006. That time made him the third-fastest man in Australia of all time, behind record-holder Darren Clark (44.38) and Miles Murphy (44.71). "I was getting aches and pains and was not able to perform as a professional athlete through lack of preparation," Steffensen said. Since representing Australia in the 4x400m relay at the world championships in South Korea, he has spent the past five months training with a new team and believes he has an opportunity to step back on the track and deliver. "You get to a stage in life where you have a defining moment and realise what you really want to do with your life," he said. "After Korea I realised there were things about myself and my running that I was not paying as much attention to as I had done and which needed changing. "I have not given myself the best possible opportunity recently because I have had a lot of other things going on, which people have read about and were not all about running. What we have done is simplify things around me to make sure I am focused on running and nothing else. "The major change has been to make sure the level of commitment is as high as the results I want to achieve." He said he had committed to AA, in particular chief executive Dallas O'Brien and high performance manager Eric Hollingsworth, and they had provided excellent support over the past six months. What we have done is simplify things around me to make sure I am focused."

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Q: Diferença entre Date, sql.Date e Calendar Qual a é diferença entre as classes java.util.Date, java.sql.Date e java.util.Calendar e em quais situções é recomendado o uso de uma ou outra? A: O melhor é entender isso do ponto de vista histórico. A primeira versão de Java tinha uma classe para data e hora: java.util.Date. Essa classe contém uma informação: um instante no tempo. Faz sentido falar em "antes" ou "depois" com essa classe, ou usá-la como um "timestamp" para saber quando alguma coisa aconteceu. A classe java.sql.Date também está lá desde o início, e observe que ela estende java.util.Date. Ela serve, basicamente, para passar que o JDBC (acesso a banco de dados relacional) possa converter entre java.util.Date e o DATE do SQL. Não se preocupe com essa classe -- se você precisar dela, você vai saber. Antes de ir ao Calendar, vamos ver alguns problemas com Date. Primeiro, você pode obter dia, mês, ano, hora, minuto e segundo, mas não tem informação sobre time zone. Ou seja, se você tem um Date, não dá para saber se é relativo ao horário de Brasília ou de Nova Iorque (que dirá horário de verão). Ou, mais precisamente, ela sempre se refere ao horário GMT. Além disso, essa classe não permite fazer contas do tipo "daqui a dois dias" ou "daqui a duas horas" -- você tem que implementar a lógica para isso você mesmo. Em certos aspectos é até fácil: some a quantidade de segundos necessária. Mas se você precisar lidar com coisas como horário de verão, é simplesmente impossível. Por fim, essa classe só permite uma representação de String: a americana. Se você precisar ler ou escrever em qualquer outro formato, está por conta própria. A classe java.util.Calendar e algumas outras (particularmente java.text.SimpleDateFormat) foram introduzidas no Java 1.1, doadas pela IBM a partir do código de uma de suas afiliadas (a Taligent), para solucionar esses problemas. Ela introduz time zones, horário de verão, e localização (ou seja, converter de/para strings com o formato adequado para a língua e região). Basicamente, Calendar seria usado para qualquer coisa que não seja saber em que instante um evento aconteceu. Então, qual usar? NÃO USE NENHUMA DESSAS CLASSES. Elas são cheias de defeitos -- eu precisaria de uma resposta inteira só para discorrer a respeito -- e existem alternativas muito superiores. Você deve usar, preferencialmente, as novas classes no pacote java.time.*, introduzido com Java 8. Se você não tem Java 8 mas tem Java 7, use o backport dessas classes, o threetenbp. Se você não tem nem isso, use o JODA Time, que foi criado justamente por conta dos problemas com as classes originais do Java, e que foi o ponto de partida para as novas classes do Java 8. A: java.util.Date - Date (Java SE7) É uma classe que representa data. Possui algumas versões sobrecarregadas de construtor, seus construtores não obsoletos são: public Date() { this(System.currentTimeMillis()); //o construtor vazio já atualiza a variável com a data //e hora atuais } public Date(long date) { fastTime = date; //sua declaração é: private transient long fastTime; } Logo, o código a seguir java.util.Date d = new java.util.Date(); System.out.println(d); Emite o seguinte resultado: Thu Apr 10 10:36:15 BRT 2014 java.sql.Date - Date (Java SE7) É uma subclasse do java.util.Date. Possui dois construtores, um deles está obsoleto, portanto recomenda-se utilizar o seguinte: public Date(long date) { // If the millisecond date value contains time info, mask it out. super(date); //chama o construtor do java.util.Date } Sua principal vantagem é que uma variável de referência dessa classe pode ser usada diretamente em um Sql Statement. java.util.Calendar - Calendar (Java SE7) É uma classe abstrata que possui métodos úteis de conversão e comparação de data, por exemplo: public static Calendar DateToCalendar(java.util.Date date){ java.util.Calendar cal = java.util.Calendar.getInstance(); //instancia um BuddhistCalendar //ou um GregorianCalendar dependendo das //configuracoes do seu computador cal.setTime(date); //seta a data do java.util.Date para sua variável de referencia //considere que a data passada foi o do primeiro exemplo, //ou seja: Thu Apr 10 10:36:15 BRT 2014 System.out.println(cal.after(new java.util.Date())); //retorna false, pois hoje não //é depois de hoje cal.add(java.util.Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, -1); //subtrai um da hora do cal System.out.println(cal.get(java.util.Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)); //retorna 9, que é a hora //do cal (que foi subtraida //logo acima) } Alguns exemplos de métodos úteis são: add(int field, int amount) //para somar um período de tempo à data da váriavel after(Object when) //para comparar se data atual é depois da data do when before(Object when) //para comparar se data atual é antes da data do when dentre outros. Joda-Time Muitos dos comportamentos das classes java.util.Date e java.util.Calendar são considerados estranhos para a maioria dos programadores Java, por isso a biblioteca JodaTime é a preferida quando a programação envolve data e hora. Joda-Time possui a classe DateTime, que tem a capacidade de substituir por completo ambas as classes. Exemplo: org.joda.time.DateTime joda1 = new org.joda.time.DateTime();//inicializa com data/hora atuais System.out.println(joda1); //imprime 2014-04-10T11:35:09.000-03:00 //cria um novo objeto com 5 horas a menos que o joda1 org.joda.time.DateTime joda2 = new org.joda.time.DateTime(joda1.minusHours(5)); System.out.println(joda1.isAfter(joda2)); //retorna true O exemplo acima mostra apenas alguns dos inúmeros métodos que a classe possui, ela possui mais métodos do que as classes que a classe substitui e todos eles costumam ser muito intuitivos. A: java.util.Date é uma classe simples e só existe mesmo por razões de compatibilidade com versões anteriores. De verdade não é muito útil, pois só guarda datas, sem as operações de manipulação. java.util.Calendar veio depois e cumpre esta função, de definir datas específicas ou fazer aritmética de datas, java.util.Calendar também pode lidar com a localização. As funções de manipulação de data da java.util.Date já foram descontinuadas. Ambas são mutáveis​​. java.sql.Date extende java.util.Date. Possui mais algumas propriedades para trabalhar com bancos de dados.

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Share this Story MVP! Chris Wondolowski, Kiowa, Wins Major League Soccer's Most Valuable Player Award ICTMN Staff 11/30/12 By a landslide, Chris Wondolowksi, Kiowa, has won Major League Soccer's Most Valuable Player Award. This caps an incredible season for Wondo, as he's known, in which he also won the Golden Boot as the league's top scorer. The San Jose Earthquakes star led the squad to the Supporters' Shield, presented to the club with the best regular season record. Wondo's 27 goals ties the all-time MLS record for a season set by Tampa Bay's Roy Lassiter in 1996. According to Sports Illustrated, the 29-year-old former Earthquakes reserve team player received 91 percent of MLS club management votes, 97 percent of media votes and 71 percent of player votes for a combined 259 percent. Thierry Henry of New York Red Bulls was runner-up with a combined 14 percent, and Graham Zusi of Sporting Kansas City was third with 7 percent. Wondolowski arrived to receive the award in Los Angeles from Washington, D.C., where he had spoken with several U.S. senators in recent days to raise awareness for Native American health issues, SI reports . Wondolowski's mother is a member of the Kiowa tribe. "It's part of my heritage, part of who I am,'' Wondolowski said. "I still have a lot of family there, and it means a lot to me to shine light onto their conditions.'' Stay tuned for a full ICTMN interview with superstar--and MVP--Chris Wondolowski. You need to be logged in in order to post commentsPlease use the log in option at the bottom of this page

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Palma Sola, Florida Palma Sola is an unincorporated area of Manatee County, Florida, United States. The botanical garden in Bradenton, Florida is known as the Palma Sola Botanical Garden. History Palma Sola (originally known as The Village Of Palma Sola) was first settled in 1868 by James Warner, a Springfield, Massachusetts nationally known gunsmith. The site of the town was most likely chosen due to the fact it was close to the mouth of the Manatee River which is a very deep river. He built his house on the Manatee River in which would now be Palma Sola. He died about one year later and left the rest of his family there and one of his sons Warburton S. Warner. Palma Sola was laid out in 1884. The town was called Palma Sola because of a lone palm tree that guided boats to the town from the Manatee River. Early settlers were J.A Felts, J.B. Rogers, A.T. Williams, John Flowers and Asa Pillsbury. The town was even the largest town in Manatee County until the turn of the century. ere was even a promotional pamphlet to promote the town and it says: "the youngest and largest town in Florida...made of largely New England people, where no liquor is sold." The small town built a sawmill in 1884 and produced about $32,000 worth of Lumber. The town started to decline after the sawmill had burned down. The town was also known for the Palma Sola Hotel and general store which was known as the biggest general store between Cedar Key and Key West. Palma Sola was a popular vacation spot and the hotel was often booked with visitors on boat from Tampa and ones on Trains from Jacksonville. The community received its name from a large palm tree which stood on nearby Snead Island. The town was a sleepy town until a bridge was built to the "new" Palma Sola on Perico Island. A post office called Palma Sola was established in 1881, during the town's heyday. and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1953. Today most of Palma Sola is considered a residential neighborhood of Bradenton although not in the city limits. Demographics As of the first census for the town in 1880 it had a population of 962. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Florida Category:Unincorporated communities in Manatee County, Florida Category:Former census-designated places in Florida Category:1868 establishments in Florida

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Q: Java lineTo() is incredible slow Hello i want to use java to draw lines with an refresh rate of 60fps: import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.stage.Stage; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.Group; import javafx.scene.canvas.Canvas; import javafx.scene.canvas.GraphicsContext; import javafx.scene.image.Image; import javafx.animation.Timeline; import javafx.animation.KeyFrame; import javafx.beans.InvalidationListener; import javafx.beans.Observable; import javafx.util.Duration; import javafx.event.EventHandler; import javafx.event.ActionEvent; import javafx.event.EventType; import javafx.scene.paint.Color; public class Example extends Application { public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } @Override public void start(Stage theStage) { Group root = new Group(); Scene theScene = new Scene( root ); theStage.setScene( theScene ); Canvas canvas = new Canvas( 512, 512 ); root.getChildren().add( canvas ); GraphicsContext gc = canvas.getGraphicsContext2D(); Timeline gameLoop = new Timeline(); gameLoop.setCycleCount( Timeline.INDEFINITE ); final long timeStart = System.nanoTime() -10000000000000l; KeyFrame kf = new KeyFrame( Duration.seconds(0.017), // 60 FPS new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() { public void handle(ActionEvent ae) { // Clear the canvas gc.clearRect(0, 0, (int)canvas.getWidth(),(int)canvas.getHeight()); for(int i=0;i<(int)(canvas.getWidth()/10);i++) { //gc.setS for(int j=0;j<10;j++) { if(j==0){gc.setStroke(Color.web("#000000"));} else{gc.setStroke(Color.web("#aaaaaa"));} gc.moveTo(j+i*10, 110); gc.lineTo(j+i*10, canvas.getHeight()); //using gc.stroke instead of moveTo and lineTo works with good performance,but i need 1px width //gc.strokeLine(j+i*10, 110, j+i*10, canvas.getHeight()); } } gc.stroke(); } }); gameLoop.getKeyFrames().add( kf ); gameLoop.play(); theStage.show(); theScene.widthProperty().addListener(observeable -> { canvas.setWidth(theScene.getWidth()); }); } } however this is incredible slow and the program will crash. Using "strokeLine()" it runs ok,but i really need to draw lines width 1px width. I suppose that i have to save the drawings in a buffer before i draw the full scene.But i read that javafx is keeping the low stuff from you.so is there another way to draw 1px lines? A: You are not resetting the path to empty on each iteration. Thus the path strokes are accumulating: you have 500 lines on the first iteration, 1000 on the second, 1500 on the third, etc. You need gc.beginPath(); after you call gc.clearRect(...);

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// --------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Manage General .create +box-sizing('border-box') +columns(5,24) +omega(24) +button-style($green-light,'ui/plus.png',$inset:true) display: block text-align: center white-space: nowrap overflow: hidden text-overflow: ellipsis #{$link} color: $base .create-options +columns(10,24) +omega(24) .create +columns(5,10) &:nth-child(odd) +omega(10) ~ .create +button-style($light,'ui/plus.png',$inset:true) // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Manage Details @import manage/forms @import manage/users @import manage/tags @import manage/profiles @import manage/products @import manage/versions @import manage/runs @import manage/suites @import manage/cases

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General Items of Interest by Carl Buhler Today, May 7, 2019 is National Teacher Appreciation Day, otherwise known as National Teacher Day. The National Education Association describes National Teacher Day “as a day for honoring teachers and recognizing the lasting contributions they make to our lives.” Today is a great day to think about and/or thank a teacher. Many of us have a favorite teacher from our time in school. As we think about how teachers shaped our lives, gave us an extra few minutes of their time, listened to our problems, and helped mold us into who we are today, we’re reminded of the special role teachers have in the lives of many. As parents, teachers continue to play a role in our lives as they influence our children and teach them foundational elements as they start their journey in life. Many teachers have influenced me during my life…and I’m confident others will say the same thing. So, to all of my teachers, thank you! According to the National Education Association, “[t]he origins of National Teacher Day are murky. Around 1944 Arkansas teacher Mattye Whyte Woodridge began corresponding with political and education leaders about the need for a national day to honor teachers. Woodridge wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt, who in 1953 persuaded the 81st Congress to proclaim a National Teacher Day. NEA, along with its Kansas and Indiana state affiliates and the Dodge City (Kan.) Local, lobbied Congress to create a national day to celebrate teachers. Congress declared March 7, 1980 as National Teacher Day for that year only. NEA and its affiliates continued to observe National Teacher Day in March until 1985, when the NEA Representative Assembly voted to change the event to Tuesday of the first full week of May.” Additionally, National Day Calendar, added teachers “are kind, patient, hard-working, dedicated and understanding professionals that mold our children’s lives in a positive direction. We entrust our children with the teachers, and they affect their lives on a daily basis.” A very true statement! The author, US Air Force retired Brigadier General Carl Buhler, is the CEO and Lead Consultant of Buhler Consulting, LLC which specializes in providing consulting services for aircraft maintenance, munitions, technology, SBIR, production, logistics, and supply. Carl is a career Air Force aircraft maintenance, munitions, and logistics officer. He is also a member of two Parent Teacher organizations.

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Q: Flash as3 - short interval http polling I would like to use http polling instead of socket in my flash application. Does http polling every 0.5 seconds can be problematic? (In terms of synchronization and performance). A: It depends on your task. For example, if you want to poll all lifetime of your client application, I would go with higher poll interval (several seconds) or go with socket connection. But if your task to send something and wait for completion of async process on server-side, polling will be a nice approach. And in your PollingService, wait for response from the server, and after 500ms timeout, do next request, you will not have any synchonization problems at all. //delay 500 ms between response from the previous request and future request var service: PollingService = new PollingService(500); service.start(); For realisation of such service you will need only 2 classes: URLLoader and Timer. And maybe signals or EventDispatcher ;)

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if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9' require 'backports/tools/path' Backports.convert_first_argument_to_path File, :executable? end

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i also like the design with those little arrow like face marks and the overall color scheme

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ /* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */ /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ /* Macros to emulate C++11 typed enums and enum classes. */ #ifndef mozilla_TypedEnum_h #define mozilla_TypedEnum_h #include "mozilla/Attributes.h" #if defined(__cplusplus) #if defined(__clang__) /* * Per Clang documentation, "Note that marketing version numbers should not * be used to check for language features, as different vendors use different * numbering schemes. Instead, use the feature checking macros." */ # ifndef __has_extension # define __has_extension __has_feature /* compatibility, for older versions of clang */ # endif # if __has_extension(cxx_strong_enums) # define MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_ENUM_TYPE # define MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_STRONG_ENUMS # endif #elif defined(__GNUC__) # if defined(__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__) || __cplusplus >= 201103L # if MOZ_GCC_VERSION_AT_LEAST(4, 5, 1) # define MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_ENUM_TYPE # define MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_STRONG_ENUMS # endif # endif #elif defined(_MSC_VER) # if _MSC_VER >= 1400 # define MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_ENUM_TYPE # endif # if _MSC_VER >= 1700 # define MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_STRONG_ENUMS # endif #endif /** * MOZ_ENUM_TYPE specifies the underlying numeric type for an enum. It's * specified by placing MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(type) immediately after the enum name in * its declaration, and before the opening curly brace, like * * enum MyEnum MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(uint16_t) * { * A, * B = 7, * C * }; * * In supporting compilers, the macro will expand to ": uint16_t". The * compiler will allocate exactly two bytes for MyEnum and will require all * enumerators to have values between 0 and 65535. (Thus specifying "B = * 100000" instead of "B = 7" would fail to compile.) In old compilers the * macro expands to the empty string, and the underlying type is generally * undefined. */ #ifdef MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_ENUM_TYPE # define MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(type) : type #else # define MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(type) /* no support */ #endif /** * MOZ_BEGIN_ENUM_CLASS and MOZ_END_ENUM_CLASS provide access to the * strongly-typed enumeration feature of C++11 ("enum class"). If supported * by the compiler, an enum defined using these macros will not be implicitly * converted to any other type, and its enumerators will be scoped using the * enumeration name. Place MOZ_BEGIN_ENUM_CLASS(EnumName, type) in place of * "enum EnumName {", and MOZ_END_ENUM_CLASS(EnumName) in place of the closing * "};". For example, * * MOZ_BEGIN_ENUM_CLASS(Enum, int32_t) * A, * B = 6 * MOZ_END_ENUM_CLASS(Enum) * * This will make "Enum::A" and "Enum::B" appear in the global scope, but "A" * and "B" will not. In compilers that support C++11 strongly-typed * enumerations, implicit conversions of Enum values to numeric types will * fail. In other compilers, Enum itself will actually be defined as a class, * and some implicit conversions will fail while others will succeed. * * The type argument specifies the underlying type for the enum where * supported, as with MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(). For simplicity, it is currently * mandatory. As with MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(), it will do nothing on compilers that do * not support it. * * MOZ_{BEGIN,END}_ENUM_CLASS doesn't work for defining enum classes nested * inside classes. To define an enum class nested inside another class, use * MOZ_{BEGIN,END}_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS, and place a MOZ_FINISH_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS * in namespace scope to handle bits that can only be implemented with * namespace-scoped code. For example: * * class FooBar { * * MOZ_BEGIN_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Enum, int32_t) * A, * B = 6 * MOZ_END_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Enum) * * }; * * MOZ_FINISH_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(FooBar::Enum) */ #if defined(MOZ_HAVE_CXX11_STRONG_ENUMS) /* * All compilers that support strong enums also support an explicit * underlying type, so no extra check is needed. */ # define MOZ_BEGIN_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name, type) \ enum class Name : type { # define MOZ_END_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name) \ }; # define MOZ_FINISH_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name) /* nothing */ #else /** * We need Name to both name a type, and scope the provided enumerator * names. Namespaces and classes both provide scoping, but namespaces * aren't types, so we need to use a class that wraps the enum values. We * have an implicit conversion from the inner enum type to the class, so * statements like * * Enum x = Enum::A; * * will still work. We need to define an implicit conversion from the class * to the inner enum as well, so that (for instance) switch statements will * work. This means that the class can be implicitly converted to a numeric * value as well via the enum type, since C++ allows an implicit * user-defined conversion followed by a standard conversion to still be * implicit. * * We have an explicit constructor from int defined, so that casts like * (Enum)7 will still work. We also have a zero-argument constructor with * no arguments, so declaration without initialization (like "Enum foo;") * will work. * * Additionally, we'll delete as many operators as possible for the inner * enum type, so statements like this will still fail: * * f(5 + Enum::B); // deleted operator+ * * But we can't prevent things like this, because C++ doesn't allow * overriding conversions or assignment operators for enums: * * int x = Enum::A; * int f() * { * return Enum::A; * } */\ # define MOZ_BEGIN_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name, type) \ class Name \ { \ public: \ enum Enum MOZ_ENUM_TYPE(type) \ { # define MOZ_END_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name) \ }; \ Name() {} \ Name(Enum aEnum) : mEnum(aEnum) {} \ explicit Name(int num) : mEnum((Enum)num) {} \ operator Enum() const { return mEnum; } \ private: \ Enum mEnum; \ }; # define MOZ_FINISH_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name) \ inline int operator+(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator+(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator-(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator-(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator*(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator*(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator/(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator/(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator%(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator%(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator+(const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator-(const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator++(Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator++(Name::Enum&, int) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator--(Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator--(Name::Enum&, int) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator==(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator==(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator!=(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator!=(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator>(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator>(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator<(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator<(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator>=(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator>=(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator<=(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator<=(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator!(const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator&&(const bool&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator&&(const Name::Enum&, const bool&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator||(const bool&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline bool operator||(const Name::Enum&, const bool&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator~(const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator&(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator&(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator|(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator|(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator^(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator^(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator<<(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator<<(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator>>(const int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int operator>>(const Name::Enum&, const int&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator+=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator-=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator*=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator/=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator%=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator&=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator|=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator^=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator<<=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; \ inline int& operator>>=(int&, const Name::Enum&) MOZ_DELETE; #endif # define MOZ_BEGIN_ENUM_CLASS(Name, type) MOZ_BEGIN_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name, type) # define MOZ_END_ENUM_CLASS(Name) \ MOZ_END_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name) \ MOZ_FINISH_NESTED_ENUM_CLASS(Name) #endif /* __cplusplus */ #endif /* mozilla_TypedEnum_h */

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The teenager has become the figurehead of a global movement of climate justice activists. Madrid, Spain – Greta Thunberg marked her arrival at the COP25 Conference on Climate Change on Friday with a strongly word plea for it “to lead to something concrete, an increase in awareness, and for people in power to grasp the urgency of the climate crisis – because right now it doesn’t seem like they are”. Speaking in a news conference at the appropriately named “Casa Encendida” (Burning House) cultural centre in Madrid’s vibrant, multicultural inner-city Lavapies district, the teenage Swedish activist – who has often described the climate crisis as “our house being on fire” – said “someone like me is a small part of a very big movement, we need more climate activists, we don’t need to listen to me before anyone else.” With her, sat on stools, were three other young Fridays For Future activists. One was from Chile. When asked about the social problems there, Thunberg replied, “it is very important we include environmental justice when we speak of social justice – climate justice is the base.” “Some people are afraid of change and change is what we young people are bringing – and that is why they are trying to silence us.” 151216101228687 What message does she have for world leaders like President Donald Trump? “To those who are not here – we cannot afford any more days going by without real action being taken. We should not look past it and ignore things.” As for the effectiveness of young activists, she argued, “We would love some action from the people in power; people are dying and suffering because of the ecological and climate emergency and we cannot wait any longer.” Climate emergency Having arrived in Lisbon on Thursday morning, Thunberg attended what is set to be the largest outdoor demonstration of COP25 on Friday evening in Madrid city centre, where more than 850 ecological organisations and their supporters will march under the slogan “The world has woken up to the climate emergency.” Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many not from Spain, flocked to the central Paseo de la Castellana for a colourful and noisy three-hour protest across the city centre, bearing banners in multiple languages, some saying “Climate Change Kills”, others “Tomorrow Will Be Too Late”, or “We Fight For Life”. “It’s time the politicians act and tell the truth,” Karen, standing behind a large Extinction Rebellion poster told Al Jazeera. “We’re doing this for our grandchildren,” added Nico, at the other end of the banner. “It’s an important subject and I want to support it,” Annick, a German woman who travelled from Tarragona in Catalonia for the demonstration, told Al Jazeera. “And Greta is doing an amazing job.” Thunberg needed to abandon the demonstration after police said that too many members of the public and media were blocking her way, but she returned to make a final speech at the end of the protest. Other speakers included actor Javier Bardem. Thunberg was in Los Angeles, en route to Chile, when she heard COP25 had been relocated to Madrid. Her subsequent journey to the Spanish capital lasted 36 days, travelling by catamaran across the Atlantic, as well as by train and electric car. Having reached Madrid’s Chamartin railway station on Friday morning – carrying her now-famous “Skolstrejk for Klimatet” – school strike for the climate – placard, she briefly visited the Madrid trade fair centre, IFEMA, where COP25 is based, meeting young activists in a protest outside the main building. In the afternoon, while using a side-entrance to the Casa Encendida building, Thunberg was greeted with cheers and applause from a group of some 50 supporters and wellwishers – including one dressed as a clown. “We have raised public awareness and that’s a big step in the right direction. But it’s nowhere near enough,” Thunberg warned. 191203041518638 “CO2 emissions are increasing, not decreasing. So, of course, there is no victory, the only thing we want to see is real action. We have achieved a lot but if you look at it from a certain point of view we have achieved nothing.” ‘Figurehead’ Patrick McKee, the sustainability programme manager at the University of Connecticut, told Al Jazeera Thunberg was “very impassioned”. “She’s very direct and she represents the youth of the world as that figurehead,” he added. “It’s sorely needed. For years, younger people have felt their voice hasn’t been heard, and they need somebody who’s willing to do that. There were a swarm of people around her when she visited COP this morning – she’s only 16, and that’s really intimidating for someone her age. But she’s been so bold and brave about delivering her message it’s hard not to be motivated to follow her.” Flavio Aragozini is an environmental activist from Rome who attended the march on Friday evening. “I already saw Greta when she came to Rome for the second global strike in May last year, and I heard her talking there,” he told Al Jazeera outside the Casa Encendida. “I knew about environment questions before Fridays for Future, but she’s made a lot of young kids realise how bad the problem is. In my own country, Venice has been seriously flooded five times, more than in the past 100 years.” As for whether the COP25 conference or the demonstration in Madrid’s streets was more important, Aragonzini concluded, “They have to work together.” “By being in the streets we are giving the politicians in COP sitting behind their police lines the message that they need to do something and we are not going to play along with them any more.”

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Comparison between general anesthesia and superficial cervical plexus block in partial thyroidectomies. Thyroidectomy under the effect of superficial cervical plexus block (SCPB) has met resistance. to compare variables in patients submitted to hemithyroidectomy under the effect of general anesthesia (GA) and SCPB. GA was used in 21 patients, and SCPB was used in another 21 patients. Following sedation, marcaine 0.5% with vasoconstrictor was used in the SCPB group. Intraoperative sedation with diazepam and metoprolol to control arterial pressure and cardiac frequency was given as needed. GA followed the standard method in the unit. We found significant results (p<0.05, Students t-test) for surgery time (GA - 111.4 min; SCPB - 125.5 min), anesthesia time (GA - 154.1 min; SCPB - 488.6 min), time in the surgery room (GA - 15 min; SCPB - 1 min), treatment costs (GA - R$203.2; SCPB - R$87.4), presence of bradycardia (GA - 0; SCPB - 23.8%) and laryngotracheal injury (GA - 51; SCPB - 0 %). We also found the following non-significant results: hospitalization time (GA - 17.3; SCPB - 15.1 hours); bleeding volume (GA - 41,9 g; SCPB - 47.6 g), size of the operative specimen (GA - 52.1 cm3; SCPB - 93.69 cm3) and patient satisfaction level (GA - 3.8; SCPB - 3.9). Although the incidence of bradycardia was higher (23.8%), SCPB was done for the resection of tumors measuring up to 348 cm3, at a lower cost and with no laryngotracheal injuries; these were present in 51% of patients undergoing GA.

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import {URLPathStr} from "polar-shared/src/url/PathToRegexps"; import {isPresent} from "polar-shared/src/Preconditions"; import {ILocation, ILocationWithPathAndHash} from "../react/router/ReactRouters"; export interface RouterLinkObj { readonly pathname: string; readonly hash?: string; readonly search?: string; } export type RouterLink = URLPathStr | RouterLinkObj; function isRouterLinkObj(routerLink: RouterLink): routerLink is RouterLinkObj { return isPresent((routerLink as any).pathname); } function toRouterLinkObj(routerLink: RouterLink): RouterLinkObj { if (isRouterLinkObj(routerLink)) { return routerLink; } return {pathname: routerLink, hash: '', search: ''}; } namespace ILocations { export function canonicalizeHash(hash?: string): string { if (! hash) { return "#"; } if (! hash.startsWith("#")) { return "#" + hash; } return hash; } export function toString(location: ILocation) { const hash = canonicalizeHash(location.hash); return `${location.pathname}${hash}` } } export namespace ReactRouterLinks { export function isActive(target: RouterLink, location: ILocation = document.location) { const targetObj = toRouterLinkObj(target); const {pathname, hash} = targetObj; return location.pathname === pathname; // TODO we used to be more picky about the hash but really our main // routes are the pathname. // return location.pathname === pathname && // ILocations.canonicalizeHash(location.hash) === ILocations.canonicalizeHash(hash); } }

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A leak suggests the employer is no longer asking for concessions on class size and composition A major stumbling block between teachers and the B.C. Public School Employers' Association may be out of the way VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A leak from the bargaining table suggests a major stumbling block between B.C. teachers and their employer may be out of the way. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association are in the midst of negotiations after a six-year agreement expired in June. “Neither parties are formally talking about what’s happening at the table, but there was, what appears to be, a leak yesterday from the employer’s side that posted its latest proposal, which has taken off provisions around class size and composition that had been regarded as concessions by the teachers’ side of the table on that,” Patti Bacchus, a former chair of the Vancouver School Board and a current education columnist, explains. The leak was apparently posted on the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association website, but later pulled. Teri Mooring with the BCTF says it is “disappointing” the BCPSEA violated the media blackout. “The BCTF will be respecting the mediator’s instructions that specific details not be discussed publicly,” she says in a statement, adding it will continue to participate in the mediation process. “We continue our efforts to get a good deal for teachers that also supports our students. That means finding solutions to our low wages that are hampering recruitment and retention efforts in the middle of teacher shortage as well as improvements to student learning conditions,” she says. Bacchus says class size and composition has been a “real sticking point” for the government side. “[The government side] is now offering to, pretty much, roll over the contracts as they are with an increase of two per cent a year over three year contracts, which is what other public sector unions have been getting,” Bacchus explains. Teachers have also been fighting for higher wages. While she’s unsure of details around the employers’ association’s request to the mediator, Bacchus says things have not been easy for instructors, who returned to class last month without a contract in place. “Teachers have been kind of boxed in,” she says. “The government has set a bargaining mandate of two per cent a year, over three years going in … What happens is that still keeps [B.C.] teachers at almost the lowest salaries in Canada. They’re way behind other provinces — I think there may be one of the provinces that pays teachers less.” The two per cent increase per year doesn’t even match the rate of inflation, and Bacchus believes low wages, in part, puts B.C. “way behind” other provinces. That, she says, makes it hard to recruit teachers to work in B.C. — something that’s also impacted by high rents. “They, I imagine, are working to get some other tweaks to their salary grids, perhaps, so that it’s possible for teachers who have been working a long time to get to a higher step in the salary grid,” she says. “Or that they’ll shorten the process for reaching the top of the grid so teachers can get their maximum salaries sooner. “There’s got to be some other tweaks in there to make this even remotely palatable to the members of the BCTF,” Bacchus says of the contract.

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This is more examples than talk. Add ScalaCheck to your build.sbt file First Problem, FizzBuzz Let’s look at some tests for FizzBuzz problem. Each test is trying to prove certain property of FizzBuzz, for instance, property “only div by 3” is trying to prove that Fizz is only returned when the passed value is divisible by 3 and not by 5. Taking a look at the value generator (divBy3) will allow us to realized we are filtering out those that are divisible by 5. Following the same like of thinking we can prove other properties out such as only those that are divisible by 5 and not by 3 should be translated to “Buzz”, or if the value is not divisible by 3 and by 5 it should be translated using the id function and toString, so they become themselves in string format. The magic here is that each test will run at least 100 times with a randomized value space (that is not stable) based on our generator properties. This is, in my opinion, stronger that testing for using limited values of the problem domain, such as 5, 10, 15, 2, 24, 2. On the other hand, this testing techniques should not replace TDD but rather extend it for more complete test suite. Our implementation of FizzBuzz looks like this. Second Problem, Stack Now, let’s see how we can use the same technique to test a custom, yet functional stack implementation. Size Let’s start by the tests since they are our area of focus in the post. First, we define a value generator, specifically for positives int values. Then we define our first test that push a number of values (in order) to the stack and verify that the size of the stack corresponds to the number of values that were pushed. Remember, this same test will run 100 times with a different number of values to be pushed. The first time it runs might be pushing 2 values and verifying that the size is 2 and then it might run again and pushes 97 values and again verifies that the size of the stack is 97. Pick Our second test verifies that pick from the stack does not modify it. Using the same principle, the test runs a lot of times, pushing a different number of items into the stack every time and then calling .head (pick) and then verifying that the size is equals to the number of values that were pushed, which means .head does not modify the stack. toList Now, we can test getting a list representation of the stack (does not modify the stack). Once more, using the same principle, each time the test runs, it checks that .toList returns the same values that we pushed in reversed order. Push & Pull Our “push pull” test verifies that whatever we pushed into the stack can be pulled out in the right order. Again, this test will run 100 times with different stack sizes. Stack Our Stack is an inmutable data structure. Operations on the stack does not modify it but rather create new stacks. Conclusions Property-based testing is a powerful tool to have in your side. I have found it very useful when writing complex data structure like the ones we have been adding to Dogs. However, it should not replace other techniques such as TDD (Test Driven Development) but rather complement them.

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The RING finger domain: a recent example of a sequence-structure family. In the past 18 months, two RING finger structures have been solved. They represent the first reported structures for this novel zinc-binding sequence motif. Both structures are significantly different from other zinc-binding domains, in terms of both their zinc-ligation scheme and their three-dimensional structures. The RING finger domain appears to be a convenient scaffold which can be altered to provide functional specificity in those proteins that contain the motif.

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Q: Do emitted events create significant load even when they are not watched? I spent a couple hours looking into this, and I could not find a definitive answer so I'm creating a question. I'm quite new to websockets, so apologies in advanced if the answer is easily available somewhere. I currently have a node.js server emitting several different websocket events through socket.io. Throughout different parts of the server code, I therefore have lines that look like: io.sockets.emit('eventOne', data); Let's say that other parts of the code also include lines such as: io.sockets.emit('eventTwo', data); I have two different types of clients that connect to the server. One type of clients only listen to the first event, thus having lines such as: socket.on('eventOne', function(data) {//blah blah}): The other class of clients listen to the other event, and thus have run lines such as: socket.on('eventTwo', function(data) {//blah blah}); Both clients are connected on root level without rooms. If we look at the first group of clients, for example, it's only watching for the 'eventOne' events, so it makes me wonder if this group of clients receive all the data for 'eventTwo' events, or if they do not because they do not listen for them. Here's my ultimate question: Do the clients experience A: the full network load for all events, or B: only for events that they are watching for? (or C: full load for events that they are watching for and only partial load for events they do not watch for) My guess is that even though the client side code are not watching for all events, all the emitted events from the server will be emitted through the websocket, and both types of clients will each be under network load for both types of events. However, a part of me thinks that socket.io code might reduce the network load for clients by refusing to receive the entire payload for events that they are not watching after it determines what the event is. Yes, in this example, the two types of clients should be joining different rooms, but I just wanted to better understand how watching for events affects the network load Thanks in advance for the insights! A: Do the clients experience A: the full network load for all events, or B: only for events that they are watching for? A server has no idea whether a client is listening for a specific event. So, if the server code says to send the event to all clients, it sends the event to all clients whether the client is listening for that event or not. So, the answer to the above question is A - the full network load for all events sent to it. However, a part of me thinks that socket.io code might reduce the network load for clients by refusing to receive the entire payload for events that they are not watching after it determines what the event is. No, TCP and socket.io just don't work that way. A whole message is sent as a unit. There's no ability to cancel part of a message. The payload would have to be broken into multiple messages with some ability for the client to send back and tell the server it does or doesn't want more pieces. That could be designed, but is not that way by default. If you have two classes of clients, each that are interested in different classes of messages, then you should probably put a given client in a specific "room" that matches what it wants to receive. If the server knows which client is which, then it can just put the client in the right room as soon as it knows. If only the client knows, then the client can send a message to the server to request placement in a specific "room". You make up the "room" names you want to use on the server - they are merely collections of clients, the actual name does not matter. Then, the server can broadcast messages to the appropriate room and only the clients that have asked to be in that room will get those messages. This way you won't be sending messages to clients that aren't interested in them. It's logically like a chat room. Each client gets put into the chat rooms that contain the types of notifications/messages it wants. It can be put into more than one room if desired. This is a very useful capability built right into socket.io. It was likely first written for chat purposes, but it works just fine for classes of notifications too.

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In a small bowl, whisk together eggs and half-and-half. Stir in the cheese and combine with the corn mixture. Pour into prepared pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes until edges are puffy and set. Puddingwill be soft in the center.

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According to a Tampa Bay Times article, former Blue Jays reliever Justin Miller was found dead this past Wednesday night at around 10:30. He was just 35 years old. His former teammate Bob File tweeted the news Friday evening. RIP Justin Miller, my friend and Blue Jays teammate. 35 too young. One of the most positive people I ever known. #TeamBrutal — Bob File (@BobFile) June 29, 2013 The right hander from Torrance, California was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the fifth round of the 1997 amateur draft before being traded to the Oakland Athletics in 1999 in a three-way trade that involved former Blue Jay Henry Blanco. Miller, along with Eric Hinske, was involved in the first trade completed by then-general manager J.P. Ricciardi, who had dealt closer Billy Koch to the Athletics in December 2001. Miller made his major league debut with the Blue Jays on April 12, 2002 against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, getting the win coming in relief of Brian Cooper. He made three more appearances in relief before being converted into a starter for much of the rest of 2002. He went through shoulder surgery and did not pitch in 2003, re-appearing in 2004 to make 15 starts. Miller made his best career start that year, tossing an eight-inning two-hit shutout against the Anaheim Angels on September 8. He spent much of 2005 in AAA Syracuse, making just one appearance with the Blue Jays before electing free agency. Miller played briefly in Japan for he Chiba Lotte Marines, then returned to Major League Baseball with the Marlins, GIants, and the Dodgers. His last professional appearance came on July 23, 2011 for the Albuquerque Isotopes. Underneath his uniform, Miller was known for his love of tattoos. One of the most known of his tattoos is the one that reads "I Love Billy Koch", which spanned his buttocks. Koch, who had signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays in 2005, encouraged Miller and his wife by offering a $1500 reward. In 2004, after complaints from batters, Major League Baseball instituted the "Justin Miller rule" that forced him to wear long sleeves on the mound. After his retirement from playing, he founded Justin Miller’s Legacy Baseball/Softball & Personal Training in Clearwater, Florida where he coached and trained. Miller leaves behind his wife Jessica and sons Joseph, 18, and Johnnie, 7.

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Tootoo does NOT belong on this team. He is classless and I would rather see the Wings be bad than classless. I feel the same way about Bertuzzi as well, but he at least CAN make the team better. With Tootoo the team becomes worse and in danger of being classless. Would you have liked Claude on the team? Or Roy? No. So why would you be okay with that POS. This thread has been closed due to emotions being higher than people's ability to read, interpret, and properly respond to simple posts. Would be a good addition but weren't there reports that the Avs were a little annoyed that Quincey was dealt to the Wings after they moved him to Tampa? MIght scupper a deal. Actually, it sounds like Greg Sherman (Avs GM) knew that the Bolts might end up flipping Quincey, as he said that Yzerman brought up the idea of a 3 team trade when they were working out the details of Downie to Colorado. Said Sherman:"I think there's a bit of both there. I had good conversations with Steve in there [being] potentially a 3-way scenario. But what we're trying to do is improve our club and Steve was a piece that we wanted to add, so … to your point of washing your hands, once you make that move and you get the player that you're looking to bring in, then what happens from there is their business. Kyle played very well for us and he wore the jersey with pride."

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import unittest import os import sys import idlelib from idlelib import PathBrowser class PathBrowserTest(unittest.TestCase): def test_DirBrowserTreeItem(self): # Issue16226 - make sure that getting a sublist works d = PathBrowser.DirBrowserTreeItem('') d.GetSubList() self.assertEqual('', d.GetText()) dir = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(idlelib.__file__))[0] self.assertEqual(d.ispackagedir(dir), True) self.assertEqual(d.ispackagedir(dir + '/Icons'), False) def test_PathBrowserTreeItem(self): p = PathBrowser.PathBrowserTreeItem() self.assertEqual(p.GetText(), 'sys.path') sub = p.GetSubList() self.assertEqual(len(sub), len(sys.path)) self.assertEqual(type(sub[0]), PathBrowser.DirBrowserTreeItem) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main(verbosity=2, exit=False)

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Introduction {#S0001} ============ La prise en charge des patients hémodialysés s\'est nettement améliorée mais avec une augmentation des complications cardiovasculaires qui constituent la principale cause de morbidité et de mortalité \[[@CIT0001]\]. Le taux de mortalité dû aux maladies cardiovasculaires chez les patients dialysés est de 10 à 30 fois plus élevé que dans la population générale \[[@CIT0002]\]. Toutes les tuniques cardiaques peuvent être intéressées par ces complications \[[@CIT0001], [@CIT0003], [@CIT0004]\]. Dans le but de mieux caractériser ces atteintes, nous avons conduit cette étude afin de déterminer la prévalence des différentes complications cardiaques. Méthodes {#S0002} ======== Il s\'agissait d\'une étude rétrospective, transversale. Elle s\'est déroulée sur une période de 4 ans allant de 2005 à 2009 au CHU Aristide le Dantec de Dakar. Tous les dossiers des patients en hémodialyse périodique pendant au moins 6 mois et ayant un bilan cardiologique ont été inclus. Ces dossiers contenaient l'âge, le sexe, le tabagisme, la néphropathie initiale, le diabète, la pression artérielle pré dialytique, la prise de poids inter dialytique (PPID) et la dose de dialyse ou Kt/V. Ce dernier permet d\'apprécier l\'efficacité de la dialyse et une valeur supérieure ou égale à 1,3 a été retenue comme normale. L\'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche était définie par une masse ventriculaire gauche indexée à la surface corporelle supérieure à 131g/m^2^ chez l\'homme et 100g/m^2^ chez la femme. L\'hypertension artérielle pulmonaire était définie par une pression artérielle pulmonaire systolique supérieure à 35 mm Hg. Tous les patients ont bénéficié d\'une radiographie du thorax de face, d\'un électrocardiogramme et d\'une échographie cardiaque. Les dossiers des patients incomplets ont été exclus de l'étude. Les données ont été analysées à l\'aide du logiciel SPSS version 16.0, 2007. Les variables quantitatives ont été exprimées en moyennes ± écart type et les variables qualitatives en effectif et en pourcentage. Le test t de Student a été utilisé pour la comparaison des variables quantitatives et le test Chi 2 ou celui de Fisher exact pour la comparaison des variables qualitatives. L\'analyse multivariée a fait appel à la régression logistique multiple. Une valeur p \< 0,05 a été considérée comme significative. Résultats {#S0003} ========= Au total, 38 dossiers de patients hémodialysés étaient retenus pour l'étude. L'âge moyen était de 52 ans ± 12,85 et le sex-ratio H/F de 1,53. La néphropathie initiale était dominée par la néphroangiosclérose et la néphropathie diabétique respectivement chez 20 et 4 patients ([Tableau 1](#T0001){ref-type="table"}). Les signes physiques sont représentés respectivement sur le [Tableau 1](#T0001){ref-type="table"}. Quant aux signes radiologiques, l\'index cardiothoracique moyen (ICT) était de 0,53±0,06 (extrêmes: 0,42-0,76). Vingt-quatre patients avaient une cardiomégalie aux dépends du ventricule gauche (63,16%), tandis que 14 (36,84%) avaient un ICT inférieur à 0,5, et un seul patient avait un arc moyen gauche convexe évocateur d\'une hypertension artérielle pulmonaire (HTAP). Les anomalies électriques portaient respectivement sur: l\'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche, l\'hypertrophie auriculaire gauche et les troubles de la repolarisation respectivement chez 27 (71,05%), 10 (26,32%) et 13 (34,21%) patients ([Tableau 2](#T0002){ref-type="table"}). Le [Tableau 3](#T0003){ref-type="table"} résume les moyennes des différents paramètres biologiques retenus pour l'étude. Les anomalies écho cardiographiques sont représentées sur la [Figure 1](#F0001){ref-type="fig"}. Sur le total des patients, la durée moyenne en hémodialyse était de 35,39 ± 13,71 mois (extrêmes: 9-48 mois). Huit patients étaient hémodialysés 12 heures par semaine, contre 30 qui bénéficiaient de 10 heures de séance par semaine. Vingt neuf patients (76%) avaient une prise de poids interdialytique (PPID) entre 3 et 4 Kg tandis que 9 (24%) avaient une PPID de plus de 5 Kg. L\'abord vasculaire pour l\'hémodialyse était une fistule artérioveineuse (FAV) chez tous les patients (100%). Le siège était distal chez 30 patients (78,95%) et proximal chez 7 (21,05%) dont 4 avaient une complication à type d\'hyperdébit. Le KT/V a été mesurée chez 19 patients. La moyenne était de 1,85 + /-0,44(extrêmes: 1,19-2,98). Dix-huit patients avaient un taux normal et 1 avait un taux bas. En analyse multivariée, l'âge, le sexe, la prise de poids interdialytique, le siège de la fistule artério-veineuse, l\'hyperparathyroïdie, l\'hypoalbuminémie, le nombre d\'heures de dialyse par semaine et le KT/V n'étaient pas associés à l\'HVG. En revanche, l\'HTA et l\'anémie ont été identifiés comme déterminants majeurs de la survenue de l\'HVG chez les patients hémodialysés (différence significative avec respectivement p \< 0,036 et 0,019). Il n\'existait pas de différence statistiquement significative entre la survenue des troubles de la repolarisation et l\'anémie (p= 0,06), la dyslipidémie (p = 0,5), l\'HTA (p = 0,17), le diabète (p= 0,64) et le taux de CRP (p = 0,4). Concernant les calcifications valvulaires cardiaques, il n\'y a pas de facteurs qui ont été décelés dans leur survenue notamment l'âge (p= 0,61) et l\'ancienneté en hémodialyse (p= 0,61). Ceci peut s\'expliquer aussi par la faible taille de notre échantillon et les écarts d'âge peu importants. Onze patients étaient décédés (29%) dont la cause de décès était dans 6 cas liée à une atteinte cardiovasculaire (54,55%). Les décès étaient liés à un infarctus du myocarde (2cas: 18,18%) et à un accident vasculaire cérébral (2 cas: 18,18%). Dans 2 cas (18,18%), la cause du décès était indéterminée. {#F0001} ###### Néphropathies initiales et signes physiques ---------------------------------------------- -------- **Néphropathies initiales** Glomérulonéphrite chronique 52,63% Néphropathie indéterminée 10,53% Néphropathie bilharzienne 2,63% Néphropathie diabétique 10,53% Néphroangiosclérose 7,89% Néphropathie tubulo-interstitielle chronique 5,26% Polykystose rénale autosomique dominante 7,89% Cancer du rein 2,63% **Signes physiques** HTA 27 cas Anémie clinique 29 cas Arythmie cardiaque 3 cas Frottement péricardique 1 cas Insuffisance cardiaque 10 cas ---------------------------------------------- -------- ###### Anomalies électriques ------------------------------------------------ -------- Tachycardie sinusale 4 cas Bradycardie sinusale 2 cas Hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche 27 cas Hypertrophie auriculaire gauche 10cas Hypertrophie biauriculaire 1 cas Extrasystole ventriculaire monomorphes isolées 2 cas Flutter atrial 1 cas Troubles de la conduction 6 cas Bloc de branche droit complet 1cas Bloc de branche gauche complet 1cas Hémibloc antérieur 3cas Bloc auriculoventriculaire du 1^er^ degré 1 cas ------------------------------------------------ -------- ###### Différents paramètres biologiques étudiés Biologie Nombre moyenne Ecart type Min Max ------------------------- -------- --------- ------------ ----- ------ **Taux d\'hémoglobine** 38 8,89 1,81 6,2 13,1 **Ferritinémie** 34 760,66 1225,36 16 7113 **Protides** 31 75,75 5,41 67 91 **Albumine** 31 40,50 6,23 25 51 **Calcium** 37 92,18 10,52 63 119 **Phosphore** 37 51,78 21,67 23 113 **PTHi** 30 307,21 281,44 14 994 Discussion {#S0004} ========== Dans notre étude, le taux moyen de l\'HVG (71,05%). C\'est le cas de Bah A. O. et al. en 2006 en République de Guinée (72,95%) \[[@CIT0003]\] et tout récemment de A. Aldlouni et al. en 2011 au Maroc (87%) \[[@CIT0001]\]. Ce taux élevé d\'HVG s\'explique par la fréquence de l\'anémie, de l\'HTA et de la prise de poids excessive chez ces patients. Une attention particulière sera accordée au suivi de l\'anémie et de l\'HTA d\'autant plus qu\'ils ont été identifiés comme déterminants majeurs de la survenue de l\'HVG. Ce fait a été aussi rapporté par Eba A., Aghrabat M.S. en 2006 en Mauritanie \[[@CIT0004]\]. Il en est de même de la FAV proximale à haut débit qui est reconnue comme un facteur favorisant l\'HVG \[[@CIT0005], [@CIT0006]\]. Statistiquement ceci conforte les résultats de notre étude. Parmi nos 8 patients qui avaient une FAV proximale, 4 avaient un hyperdébit. Au cours du suivi, la proportion des troubles de la repolarisation étaient retrouvés chez 13 patients soit 34,21% avec un âge moyen de 50,4 ans. Ce résultat est similaire à ceux retrouvés par SABOURI \[[@CIT0007]\] où l'âge moyen était de 55,7 ans. Dans la littérature comme le rapporte l'étude de B. CHARRA \[[@CIT0008]\], la prévalence élevée de l\'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche, de l\'hypertension artérielle et du diabète chez les hémodialysés est à l\'origine d\'une maladie coronaire souvent silencieuse et associée à des troubles de la repolarisation non spécifiques sur l\'ECG de repos. Ceci conforte notre étude où nous avons établi une corrélation significative entre l\'HVG et la survenue des troubles de la repolarisation. Cependant, il n\'y avait pas de corrélation entre les troubles de la repolarisation et le diabète ainsi qu\'avec l\'HTA avec une différence non significative dans les 2 cas ce qui s\'explique entre autres par la faible taille de l'échantillon. Ce constat va à l\'encontre des résultats d\'autres études qui ont recherché les facteurs de risque cardio-vasculaires chez l\'hémodialysé. Notamment TAKEDA et Al. \[[@CIT0009]\] au Japon, qui ont démontré que le risque de survenue de nouveaux évènements cardio-vasculaires était fortement lié à l\'HTA (p\< 0,0005). La prévalence des troubles de la conduction dans notre série était de 15,79%. Le même résultat a été noté par GERGAUD \[[@CIT0010]\] avec 15,3% des troubles de la conduction chez les hémodialysés. Chez 71,05%, des patients l'échographie cardiaque avait mis en évidence une HVG, qui pourrait être à l\'origine de ces troubles de la conduction. Cette théorie est réconfortée par JUNGERS P. \[[@CIT0011]\] qui avait montré dans sa série que l\'HVG et les calcifications de la jonction auriculo-ventriculaire étaient les principaux facteurs responsables des troubles de la conduction. Trois patients (7,89%) avaient des troubles du rythme. Ils avaient à la fois une HVG, une prise excessive du poids interdialytique et des troubles de la repolarisation. Des résultats similaires ont été retrouvés par JUNGERS P. \[[@CIT0009]\] et EBA A \[[@CIT0012]\] dans respectivement 12% et 3,5%. Nous avons retrouvé l\'HTAP chez 8 patients (21,05%). JUNGERS \[[@CIT0011]\] avait retrouvé dans sa série une HTAP dans 20%. L\'HVG, la FAV à haut débit, les troubles métaboliques et hormonaux associés à l\'IRCT et le tabagisme ont été évoqués comme les facteurs étiologiques possibles d\'HTAP chez les hémodialysés. Dans notre série, les calcifications des valves mitrales ont été retrouvées dans 5,26% et aortiques dans 10,52% des cas. Ce qui est similaire aux résultats retrouvés en Mauritanie où les calcifications des valves mitrales étaient mises en évidence respectivement dans 12% et 3% des cas sans calcifications des valves aortiques \[[@CIT0004]\]. Une corrélation a été retrouvée entre l'âge, la durée d\'hémodialyse et la présence des calcifications valvulaires dans la littérature \[[@CIT0013]\]. Aucune corrélation n\'a été retrouvée entre les calcifications valvulaires chez nos patients et l\'ancienneté en dialyse. Ce pendant dans une étude japonaise chez les hémodialysés (1290) patients suivis pendant 10ans (2000-2010) publiée en Févier 2013, il a été rapporté que les patients atteints de calcification de la valve étaient plus âgés et CRP sérique et de l\'hormone parathyroïdienne intacte étaient plus élevés; inversement, l\'indice de masse corporelle et le taux d\'albumine et de la créatinine sériques étaient plus faibles chez les patients présentant une calcification de la valve que chez ceux sans \[[@CIT0002]\]. Ceci pourrait être expliqué par la durée courte de nos patients en dialyse (moyenne inférieure à 2 ans) par rapport à celle décrite dans la littérature. Les décès dans notre étude étaient liés à une atteinte cardiovasculaire dans 54,55%. Les IDM et les AVC venaient au premier plan avec chacun un pourcentage de 18,18% des cas. En Afrique, EBA en Mauritanie avait retrouvé que 62% de décès étaient d\'origine cardiovasculaire chez les hémodialysés \[[@CIT0003]\] de même qu\'aux USA et au Japon où les causes cardiovasculaires de décès chez les hémodialysés étaient notées respectivement dans 52% et 58% des cas \[[@CIT0012], [@CIT0014]\]. Conclusion {#S0005} ========== Les complications cardiaques sont fréquentes chez les patients sénégalais hémodialysés à Dakar. Leur prévention passe par un bon contrôle des principaux facteurs de risque à savoir l\'HTA et l\'anémie. La réalisation régulière d'échocardiographies permettrait leur dépistage précoce afin de pouvoir proposer un traitement optimal. Etat des connaissance sur le sujet {#S20006} ---------------------------------- Les complications cardiovasculaires constituent la première cause de morbimortalité chez les patients hémodialysés chroniques.Elles sont dominées par l\'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche, mais peuvent affecter toutes les tuniques cardiaques et vasculaires. Contribution de notre étude a la connaissance {#S20007} --------------------------------------------- Notre étude est venue confirmée encore que l\'hypertrophie ventriculaire gauche est la principale complication cardiaque chez les hémodialysés chroniques.Ce travail montre en plus que les calcifications cardiaques ne sont pas corrélées à l\'ancienneté en hémodialyse. Conflits d\'intérêts {#S0008} ==================== Les auteurs ne déclarent aucun conflit d\'intérêts. Contributions des auteurs {#S0009} ========================= Tous les auteurs on lu et approuvé la version finale du manuscrit.

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The Judge Who Ban Proposition 8 Talks About Being Gay The judge who had stopped the ban of the gay marriage in California speaks for the first time on the fact that he is gay. US District Judge Vaughn Walker had been outed during the lawsuit of Proposition 8 last year. During an interview, he indicated that he had never saw his sexual orientation as a reason to not hear the case. It would be “a slipping slope” if judges started to drop from the cases because of their own sexual orientation, race or sex, he said. He added: “I was the ogre of the gay community when I was nominated, and a hero when I leave” because he had a tumultuous relationship with the community being not always in favor of gay groups. Anti-gay groups appealed his decision to stop the ban of the gay marriage in California and the case is due to come before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal, after the Supreme Court has ruled whether anti-gay groups have the legal standing to defend Prop 8.

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Nes Hydroelectric Power Station The Nes Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Nes in Buskerud, Norway. The facility operates at an installed capacity of . The average annual production is 1,330 GWh. The station is operated by E-CO Vannkraft. See also References Category:Hydroelectric power stations in Norway Category:Buildings and structures in Buskerud

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No heating in the middle of a particularly nasty winter can be problematic, too - although it's mostly a matter of comfort, not survival. In most places, with robust shelter and adequate clothing, bedding, and food, it's fairly hard to freeze to death at home (but note that the cold may make some infections or medical conditions worse; you may have to worry about frozen water pipes, too). The situation can become a lot more dire if you are on foot in the middle of nowhere, so truly hardcore, wilderness-minded preppers may have something to ponder about; but hauling a sufficient amount of fuel is typically impractical to begin with, so their best bet would be warm clothing, improvised shelter, and the ability to build a fire. We'll talk about that in the section that deals with camping supplies. Nail your studs together in lengthwise pairs at a 90-degree angle to form braces. This makes them stronger. Then run three or four braces horizontally across every door, hammering the nails from above and below directly into the frame at a 45-degree angle. If you drive them straight in, they're easier to pop out when somebody kicks the door. Use more braces to secure the drywall over the windows. Try to use longer nails and leave a couple inches of each nailhead sticking out for easy removal. — Clint Carter It used to be that dashcams were prohibitively expensive; but today, the prices start at $50, so it makes sense to give the devices a try. I can recommend Rexing V1 ($100), but there are countless other options to choose from. The bottom line is, if you own a car, it's probably the most affordable and meaningful liability insurance policy you can get. These are people who believe a thousand-year-old prophecy is about to come true. People who believe most of their loved ones will be dead within a year. People who are preparing for the possibility of killing their neighbors, who presumably will become feral and desperate. People who just might buy 3D printers and extra fancy new UV handheld water purifiers to help ride out the collapse of civilization, but who are probably more likely to spend $10 on PDF downloads of guides with names like Urban Chicken Farming After the Dollar Collapses. These are people who expect they themselves may only have a year left on this planet. The 66-year-old tried starting his own spinoff meetup. Ozarks Resilience Group was to be a pragmatic organization that ran drills on real-life scenarios like hiking out of town with a bug-out bag. After six months of nonparticipation, he gave up. Allen estimates there are several hundred “hardcore preppers” in Springfield, but at most, there’s two dozen whom he would trust in an emergency. To cope with a true emergency, it's not enough to know the risks and sit on a pile of overpriced survival gear: you need to plan ahead. If your house is on fire, there may be no time to rifle through folders to gather all your vital documents; if the floodwaters are rising or a chemical tanker overturns on a nearby highway, it may a bit late to start thinking about refueling your car. And if you're stranded on a rural road in a broken-down vehicle, you may sorely regret not putting any drinking water in the trunk. In fact, the influx had begun well before Trump’s victory. In the first ten months of 2016, foreigners bought nearly fourteen hundred square miles of land in New Zealand, more than quadruple what they bought in the same period the previous year, according to the government. American buyers were second only to Australians. The U.S. government does not keep a tally of Americans who own second or third homes overseas. Much as Switzerland once drew Americans with the promise of secrecy, and Uruguay tempted them with private banks, New Zealand offers security and distance. In the past six years, nearly a thousand foreigners have acquired residency there under programs that mandate certain types of investment of at least a million dollars. The next area of the book is on water. Every good prepper knows you can only last about 3 days without water. I promise you, you won’t want to go that long. Jim has some great information on finding water sources as well as filtering, purifying, and properly storing it. The next rule of 3 is “3 weeks without food”, so aptly enough, chapter 3 is on food, and how to avoid a starvation diet. Of course food storage is covered, but Jim also talks about the importance of diversification. If water is not in large supply, you’ll need foods that are easily eaten without having to add any water. He also talks a little about gardening, foraging, fishing, hunting and trapping, and how to preserve what food you find. It does you no good to get a deer if you can’t preserve some of that meat to eat at a later time. To manage that fear, Dugger said, he has seen two very different responses. “People know the only real answer is, Fix the problem,” he said. “It’s a reason most of them give a lot of money to good causes.” At the same time, though, they invest in the mechanics of escape. He recalled a dinner in New York City after 9/11 and the bursting of the dot-com bubble: “A group of centi-millionaires and a couple of billionaires were working through end-of-America scenarios and talking about what they’d do. Most said they’ll fire up their planes and take their families to Western ranches or homes in other countries.” One of the guests was skeptical, Dugger said. “He leaned forward and asked, ‘Are you taking your pilot’s family, too? And what about the maintenance guys? If revolutionaries are kicking in doors, how many of the people in your life will you have to take with you?’ The questioning continued. In the end, most agreed they couldn’t run.” As Huffman, of Reddit, observed, our technologies have made us more alert to risk, but have also made us more panicky; they facilitate the tribal temptation to cocoon, to seclude ourselves from opponents, and to fortify ourselves against our fears, instead of attacking the sources of them. Justin Kan, the technology investor who had made a halfhearted effort to stock up on food, recalled a recent phone call from a friend at a hedge fund. “He was telling me we should buy land in New Zealand as a backup. He’s, like, ‘What’s the percentage chance that Trump is actually a fascist dictator? Maybe it’s low, but the expected value of having an escape hatch is pretty high.’ ” The funny thing about disasters is that they seldom unfold precisely as planned. Perhaps you will lose a job and get robbed the same week. Perhaps in the middle of a prolonged outage, you will find out that some of your emergency supplies have been misplaced, damaged, or spoiled. Maybe your plan to walk a mile to get drinking water from a river will get foiled by a broken limb. And maybe a brilliant home defense strategy will prove worthless when standing eye to eye with an angry mob of rioters armed with rocks. When I am going through a grocery store gathering survival food, I get some strange looks from people close enough to hear me muttering under my breath as I discount items. Phrases like “not enough calories”, “needs more fat”, not enough carbs”, and the like roll off my tongue frequently. The truth of the matter is that what we consider to be a healthy diet in normal times is probably inadequate in a high stress, very active, crisis situation. There is a reason we like carbs, and fats, and sugars, and that reason is our body needs these things. The human palate developed in times when being physically active and dealing with life threatening events was the norm, and when a steady supply of food was not a guarantee. Hence the urge to get all we can when we can, which leads to rampant obesity in modern sedentary times but is adaptive to survival in harder times. Over the phone from the company’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, Shields attributed the spike to the onslaught of natural disasters that left thousands of Americans without food in 2017, and rattled many more. “You got the hurricane that hit Florida, you got the hurricane that hit the Houston area, you got the hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico,” he said. “Geologists are coming out and saying that California is severely overdue for a big earthquake. You got these major events that are taking place that affect mainstream America. So how do you protect your family?” Stay positive: the world is probably not ending, and there is a good chance that it will be an even better place for our children than it is for us. But the universe is a harsh mistress, and there is only so much faith we should be putting in good fortune, in benevolent governments, or in the wonders of modern technology. So, always have a backup plan. Resources abound. With a modest amount of computer knowledge, you can Google around the internet to find all sorts of emergency food and food storage advice. Be an informed consumer. Learn about the foods that store well and also about pre-packaged meals that only require a bit of hot water to create a good-tasting and satisfying food experience. Now, a word of caution: beware of debt. Many of us are taught that owing money is normal, even desirable; indeed, for middle-class folks, some forms of indebtedness may be difficult to avoid. But unnecessarily accrued debt cuts into your bottom line in two insidious ways. First of all, monthly installment payments limit your flexibility in an emergency - so if your income shrinks, your savings will be depleted at a merciless and non-negotiable rate. Secondly, high-interest loans, such as credit cards, amount to giving out a good chunk of your income without earning anything useful in return. They are akin to voluntarily accepting a pay cut. And why shouldn’t they? National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Preppers doesn’t exactly help viewers understand the plight of the average prepper, the one without 60 guns, scuba diving equipment, a bunker and an armored personnel carrier. “I knew going into it that they would try to sensationalize a lot of stuff,” says Allen, a Springfield, Missouri survivalist who refused to divulge his last name; he appeared on the show in 2012 showing off his aquaponics setup. “If Doomsday Preppers had shown typical preppers on a typical day, it would’ve been pretty boring.” Mindset is everything. Mental preparation comes first. I would change number 12 to number 1 and say,”practice, practice, practice…”. A wilderness solo for a few days (after you “practice, practice, practice…” for a while) will cause a dramatic change in your self reliance level. It did mine and that’s why almost everything I acquire has multiple possible uses. For instance, my business card case is metal and has possibilities as a weapon and a signaling mirror. “Wildwood Wisdom” by Ellsworth Jaeger is a good place to start. He shows how to “think” survival like no one else. Prepping is more about planning, knowledge, and skills than actually purchasing a lot of useless gadgets. I walked away from the consumer lifestyle many years ago and now live on an off-grid homestead. That said, there are always items that preparedness-minded people, like myself, keep their eyes open for. We are always looking for good deals on all things canning, such as jars, lids, pressure canners, and water bath canners. Or perhaps a higher-ticket item, such as a food dehydrator. To maintain sanity while trying to enumerate risks, I found that it's best to focus on broad outcomes instead of trying to track down every single way for things to go south. Say, it should not matter if you are laid off because of a downsizing, because your new boss hates you, or because they finally catch you stealing paperclips. The outcome is the same: you are out of a job and urgently need a way to pay your bills. Mountain House, Wise Food, My Patriot Supply, and Ready Store need to get better in this regard. In some cases, we had to call a company and dig deeper than reasonable in order to find out calorie content — or we had to look at individual nutritional labels to reverse engineer the math. In other cases they called something a “1-month bucket” but that was based on silly calorie numbers. Preppers Survive gets quite a few emails each month. My favorite emails are from newbie Preppers because they have an intensity and an urgency in their comments and questions. This intense urgency is how I felt when I first started prepping. I laboriously looked for articles on prepping for beginners. It felt like it haunted my every waking thought for months. I have been prepping for eight years and have learned many lessons over the years. Perhaps a universal lesson I’ve learned is that there is no magic formula! Then a woman wearing a fanny pack, Marcia Brumfield, reads aloud the day’s headlines from decidedly non-MSM sources. The United Nations is taking over the Chicago Police Department to perform population control, evidently. A train crash killed 70 in Seattle. (The figure at the time was actually seven.) It’s implied that Antifa is to blame. “They want a war,” Brumfield says. “They’re the elites, and they want population control.” Last on the docket, “they” are using direct energy weapons to start wildfires in California. It’s unclear who “they” are, but apparently, they’re after the fruits and nuts. I buy dry beans and can them myself. I know it sounds like a lot of work but its super easy and MUCH cheaper than store bought canned beans. I tend to have some empty canning jars so to keep as many full as possible I fill the empties with beans and have even canned water. An empty jar is just taking up space and provides NOTHING. The dry beans are good for long term and the self-canned are great for quick meals. The best of both worlds! But in 1961 John F. Kennedy encouraged “every citizen” to help build fallout shelters, saying, in a televised address, “I know you would not want to do less.” In 1976, tapping into fear of inflation and the Arab oil embargo, a far-right publisher named Kurt Saxon launched The Survivor, an influential newsletter that celebrated forgotten pioneer skills. (Saxon claimed to have coined the term “survivalist.”) The growing literature on decline and self-protection included “How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years,” a 1979 best-seller, which advised collecting gold in the form of South African Krugerrands. The “doom boom,” as it became known, expanded under Ronald Reagan. The sociologist Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., a professor emeritus at Oregon State University, who spent twelve years studying survivalism, said, “During the Reagan era, we heard, for the first time in my life, and I’m seventy-four years old, from the highest authorities in the land that government has failed you, the collective institutional ways of solving problems and understanding society are no good. People said, ‘O.K., it’s flawed. What do I do now?’ ” Craig Compeau is a third-generation Alaskan who is prepping for a government takeover. Craig has set up a remote bugout InterShelter in the Alaskan wilderness. We also meet 44-year-old adventurer David Lakota who depends on his intuition and connection to nature to survive a giant tsunami and the mountainous terrain of Hawaii. During the program David and his girlfriend Rachaelle bug out with minimal supplies from the Kalalau Valley on Kaua'i to the 4000' high plateaus above. Don’t let prepping overwhelm you because there are many companies wanting you to buy their product. And I agree with pat Henry, things are not as bad as what many think. I have been listening to doomsday talkers since 2011 about the imminent collapse around the corner and there will always be people saying this. So don’t rush to spend thousands of dollars. Do a little at a time and stay within your means. This is a good article because it gives you general categories such as a means to purify water, then food, then medicine, then security and also… Read more » Most preppers don’t actually have bunkers; hardened shelters are expensive and complicated to build. The original silo of Hall’s complex was built by the Army Corps of Engineers to withstand a nuclear strike. The interior can support a total of seventy-five people. It has enough food and fuel for five years off the grid; by raising tilapia in fish tanks, and hydroponic vegetables under grow lamps, with renewable power, it could function indefinitely, Hall said. In a crisis, his SWAT-team-style trucks (“the Pit-Bull VX, armored up to fifty-calibre”) will pick up any owner within four hundred miles. Residents with private planes can land in Salina, about thirty miles away. In his view, the Army Corps did the hardest work by choosing the location. “They looked at height above sea level, the seismology of an area, how close it is to large population centers,” he said. “Next thing I see is, they hanged the colored boy, ’cause they caught him stealing. And they had established, I think, about 1,000 trees in the forest out in Mark Twain to hang people from if they catch them stealing or whatever. And I had a big dog—my dog died of bone cancer of all things two years ago. Buddy was half-Rottweiler, half-German shepherd. He was a dog, and he was with me in this. And I also have a police riot gun, a 12-gauge, that holds eight magnum shells. So I’m seeing all this stuff happening, and then I look around, and my dog’s gone. So I picked up my shotgun and went to look for my dog, and I found five men, and they were already skinning him to eat.” Monitor what your family eats for a week and use that as a guideline for getting started. The advantage of doing this is you will learn what your family likes so that you can shop accordingly. You would be surprised at how many people can’t remember what they ate yesterday let alone a week ago. Try to write everything down so that you don’t have to rely upon your memory.

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An interim report from the House Oversight Committee paints a familiar picture of Trump associates skirting the law to curry favor with people who can make them richer. This time, the dealing doesn’t involve Russians but Saudis, and it is not about a lavish tower in Moscow but the sale […] ImagePrime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, left, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during a welcome ceremony for the prince’s visit to Pakistan, in Islamabad on Monday.CreditBandar Al-Jaloud/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images KARACHI, Pakistan — A few years ago, when my wife and I decided to name […] It’s no longer shocking to hear news like Google cooperating with state censors in Russia. As American companies seek entry into foreign markets, they are increasingly willing to appease societies that are hostile to western traditions of liberty. 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Instead, the kingdom is curtailing the voices of moderation that have historically combated extremism. Numerous Saudi activists, scholars and thinkers who have sought reform and opposed the forces of […] This week, the United States and Poland will be co-hosting a summit in Warsaw to “Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East.” More than 70 countries have been invited, a departure from the Trump administration’s usual unilateralism. Unfortunately, history suggests the conference won’t amount to much. […] Technology is supposed to make life easier, but that’s not always the case. For women living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, smartphones have made it harder to escape from abusive families and a social system that restricts their choices. Now, activists including Human Rights Watch are calling on Google and Apple to pull an app […] The Saudi heir and his friends in the White House evidently calculated that the outcry over the barbarous murder of Jamal Khashoggi would die out over time, and that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would be free to continue on his autocratic way, repressing critics and dissidents with impunity. They […] Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon and the richest man in the world, published an extraordinarily personal blog post on Thursday that accused the owner of The National Enquirer of trying to blackmail him in order to stop an investigation into how the tabloid had obtained private messages and […] WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia told a top aide in a conversation in 2017 that he would use “a bullet” on Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist killed in October, if Mr. Khashoggi did not return to the kingdom and end his criticism of the Saudi government, […] About a decade ago, buying apps and games for our phones was nothing short of a hassle. Now, it’s easier than ever to just find a payment method that works for you, be it operator billing, credit/debit card, Paypal, or even gift card, and fill up your device with all the software and media that […] Enlarge / President Donald Trump welcomes Crown Prince Shaikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the Oval Office of the White House on May 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. Shaikh Mohammad’s government hired former NSA contractors to help build a surveillance operation, according to a Reuters report—part of an effort to give […] In a missive sent to supporters, Hillary Clinton utilized what she claimed were “false accusations” and “baseless assaults” against the controversial Clinton Foundation in order to build up the foundation’s email list. In a blast email sent via her Onward Together organization, Clinton asked users to also sign up for the Clinton Foundation email list: […] RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — An expert from the United Nations human rights office will look into the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist killed in October by Saudi agents, the agency said on Friday. Agnès Callamard, the special rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, […] John Limbert belongs to an exclusive club — the 52 American diplomats held hostage by Iran for 444 days during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Since that crisis, which began 40 years ago next month, the two countries shared an enmity that has only grown worse under President Trump. 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Q: Getting contrast color to a given color in RGB or ARGB or HEX I am looking for a stable way to find a contrast/inverted/opposite color to a given one. Application of this is to find best possible color for foreground to give background. A: I read this in a magazine article probably 25 years ago. I don't recall the full derivation, but they said to take each component (red, green, and blue) and invert the high bit of the color. In a C-like programming language, you could do: component = (~component & 0x80) | (component & 0x7F); This can be simplified to: component ^= 0x80; for a single component or to: component ^= 0x80808000; if you want to do 4 components at once (and don't affect the alpha). This assumes your components are 8-bit values. This avoids the problems you get with the middle values if you simply invert them. In that case 127 becomes 128, and vice-versa. But with the above solution, 127 becomes 255 and 128 becomes 0.

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Retuen Statement values 1. Is it always necessary for a return value of main() to be an integer. 2. What happens if the return value of main() is not integer. 3. When a return value other than 0 is returned - does it always indicate that an error has occurred ? 4. If the answer to '3' is yes then what steps does the OS take ? 1. Is it always necessary for a return value of main() to be an integer. In C, the compiler may allow main() to return a void, but its behaviour is undefined and therefore its highly not recommended. As a reference, the C++ standard explicitly prohibits returning void, and some compilers would ignore your void and convert it to an int returning zero. 2. What happens if the return value of main() is not integer. Well, if its a void, the consequences of such a program are technically unpredictable, but it is likely it would just return 0. If its a char or any other kind of non-int, assuming the compiler will even allow this, the compiler would probably attempt to cast it into an int, but this all entirely dependant on the compiler. All this speculation is avoided by using the standard int. 3. When a return value other than 0 is returned - does it always indicate that an error has occurred ? 4. If the answer to '3' is yes then what steps does the OS take ? The meaning of the return value always depends on the context of the call. For instance, if you make a program to run from a batch script, you might want its return integer be a part of a switch of some kind with all non-zero actions that do different things to the script. Normally, the Operating system will treat zero as good and non-zero as bad, but honestly it doesn't usually care what it returns, unless the process that requested the program to run actually needs to know that information. I beleive you do something like this in windows XP. (Since I am logged into Ubuntu right now I cant test this).. Right after you execute the command in a batch program, the ERRORLEVEL environment variable should be assigned the last returned code, so doing this should show you that return code. When a return value other than 0 is returned - does it always indicate that an error has occurred ? When program terminates with 0, this means program has been ended correctly as per complier. else if it ends up with non-zero or value 1 then it means that there is code still awaiting for execution or abnormal termination may occured (like exit() function in c). It may be due to thread at the run-time that requires 1/0, im not sure about them. But 0 means everything is cool as per complier else 1 or non-zero means abnormal termination of program or run-time issues affecting programs. Hi. so this is actually a continuation from another question of mine[Here](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/506795/dynamically-add-values-into-datagridview-cell-from-listbox-vb2010) but i was advised to start a new thread as the original question … I have a 2d matrix with dimension (3, n) called A, I want to calculate the normalization and cross product of two arrays (b,z) (see the code please) for each column (for the first column, then the second one and so on). the function that I created to find the ... Write a C program that should create a 10 element array of random integers (0 to 9). The program should total all of the numbers in the odd positions of the array and compare them with the total of the numbers in the even positions of the array and indicate ...

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Bobby Ward Robert "Bobby" Ward (born 21 October 1958) is a Scottish former footballer, who played for Celtic and Newport County. Ward was considered a hot prospect at Celtic until a managerial change forced him to move to Newport County, where he played alongside legends such as John Aldridge and Tommy Tynan. Ward joined Newport County during the most successful period in the club's long history. Ward was part of the squad that won promotion and the Welsh Cup and in the subsequent season reached the quarter-final of the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup. They reached the quarter finals, losing 3–2 on aggregate to Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany. In 1981, he joined Scottish club Rutherglen Glencairn References Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:Footballers from Glasgow Category:Scottish footballers Category:English Football League players Category:Rutherglen Glencairn F.C. players Category:Celtic F.C. players Category:Newport County A.F.C. players Category:Association football forwards Category:Scottish Junior Football Association players

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Sir, The authors of "Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome (JLNS) masquerading as intractable epilepsy" claimed that JLNS is more prevalent in Norway and Turkey.\[[@ref1]\] The prevalence of JLNS in Norwegian families are reported by Tranebjaerg *et al*,\[[@ref2]\] the authors cited this study, but there is no citation about the prevalence in Turkey. As far as we know there are just two data about the prevalence of clinically diagnosed JLNS in Turkey.\[[@ref3][@ref4]\] There are also some case reports and studies in the literature in Turkey, these cases are also clinically diagnosed as JLNS and not genetically confirmed.\[[@ref5]--[@ref9]\] There is one family, reported by Tyson *et al*,\[[@ref10]\] resident of UK but Turkish, where JLNS has been genetically confirmed. There is another report by us about genetically confirmed Turkish JLNS family.\[[@ref11]\] These two families have the same pathologic variant. Because of this reason, we would like to review the Turkish literature about long QT families and cases diagnosed as clinically and/or genetically JLNS. Ocal *et al*,\[[@ref3]\] investigated the prevalence of JLNS syndrome in a school for deaf children, evaluated by ECG 350 on congenitally deaf children with an age range of 6-19 years. They found eight children with a QTc interval \> 440 ms were further studied by cardiac examination, repeat ECGs (three times), Holter monitoring, echocardiography, and exercise testing. They had assessed the families for a history of syncope and deafness and who underwent ECG evaluations regarding lengthened QTc interval. Among these eight children, only two girls aged 14 and 15 years were diagnosed as having LQTS according to Schwartz\'s criteria (0.57% of the 350 deaf children; 95% confidence intervals 0, ≤ P ≤ 0.013). At the end of this study, the authors reported that the prevalence of JLNS among these congenital deaf children was 0.21%. After that study, Ilhan *et al*,\[[@ref4]\] in their study pointed out the diagnostic importance of the ventricular depolarization parameters and prevalence of JLNS among 132 children with congenital hearing loss (CHL). They found that patients with CHL and JLNS (n: 5; two family + 1 JLNS from the family pedigree, died before) had significantly longer mean values of QT, QTc, JT, and JTc intervals and dispersion values than those of CHL without JLNS (n: 127). In another study, the researchers analyzed the prognostic significance and effectiveness of 24-h Holter monitoring recordings in pediatric cardiac patients. They obtained 490 Holter monitoring recordings from 367 cases in Ege University Medical Faculty, Paediatric Cardiology Department, from 1999 to 2001 and these recordings were analyzed retrospectively. They found that 54% of the cases were normal whereas dysrhytmia of a wide spectrum was observed in 46% of the cases. The distribution of these findings were ventricular dysrhytmia 25%, supraventricular dysrhytmia 10%, supraventricular and ventricular dysrhytmia together 5%, complete A-V block 4%, and long QT syndrome was 2%. Among these 2% LQTSs, just one JLNS, two Romano Ward, and three sporadic cases were observed.\[[@ref4]\] In another study, Tutar *et al*,\[[@ref6]\] examined the ECG traces of 397 deaf children, after exclusion of JLNS (n: 3) and compared them with those of 361 normal hearing counterparts. Acet **et al**,\[[@ref7]\] reported two sisters with Jervell-Lange-Nielsen Syndrome (JLNS). They reported about a 21-year-old woman who was referred to the emergency unit due to recurrent seizures. Her corrected QT interval was 491-506 ms, the patient died because of sepsis within 61 days of her hospitalization. The authors found out that she had a congenital sensori-neural hearing loss and one sibling of her died when she was 2 years old and had a sister with hearing loss from her family history. They evaluated the patient\'s 16-year-old sister and found out that her corrected QT interval was 474 ms. Herguner **et al**,\[[@ref8]\] also reported a case with congenital sensorineural hearing loss and syncopes mimicking seizures. They also found out that the case was born as the third child of consanguineous marriage. They also reported that in the pedigree of the case, there were six persons affected except the case. They also had hearing loss and died suddenly during their childhood. In another case report, the authors described two siblings with JLNS. They reported a 3-year-old girl who was admitted to emergency service with respiratory arrest and loss of consciousness. Her electrocardiography showed that she had torsade de pointes type ventricular tachycardia. Defibrillation and anti-arrhytmic medications were failed and the patient died. The authors found from the retrospective history that she and her sister were deaf. They evaluated the patient\'s 5-year-old sister and found that her ECG showed the corrected QT interval of 480 ms.\[[@ref8]\] In the light of all these studies and reports, there were 13 cases clinically diagnosed as JLNS, 8 cases diagnosed again clinically from retrospective history of the family pedigree, and two genetically confirmed JLNS in Turkish population.

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According to the urban legend (and a few zombie movies), Twinkies can be expected to last forever. But thanks to labor issues, longstanding financial difficulties, and changing consumer preferences, Twinkie manufacturer Hostess Brands Inc. might not be quite as indestructible. The bakery company has shut three plants and laid off 627 workers following labor strikes. According to the Wall Street Journal, CEO Gregory Rayburn said on Monday that the company’s next step might be liquidation. Is Hostess, the venerable manufacturer of cakey sugary Twinkies, Suzy Q’s, and Ho Hos, doomed? The strikes are being led by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union. The union is protesting a labor agreement a bankruptcy judge upheld last month after 92% of members rejected it in September that would cut pay by 8% and make workers pay 20% more in health care costs. In a statement, the union president took issue with the CEO’s assertion that the strikes were behind the closures of facilities in Cincinnati, Seattle and St. Louis, saying that Hostess had already planned to close several plants as part of its bankruptcy restructuring — the company’s second Chapter 11 filing in less than a decade. (MORE: Hostess, Maker of Twinkies, To File For Bankruptcy) Do Twinkie fans need to start stockpiling? It’s impossible to say. What’s clear is that a worker strike isn’t the only headache for Hostess. PrivCo, a company that researches privately-held firms, estimates that at the end of 2011, Hostess had $40.3 million in cash and $1.43 billion in liabilities, including $303 million in debt that came due this year. PrivCo CEO Sam Hamadeh calls these figures a “recipe for a disaster in the making.” Hamadeh says the company’s “onerous union contracts and its massively unfunded pension obligations” are a big part of the problem. “As of January 2012, Hostess’ pension fund was approximately $2 billion underfunded,” he says. Hostess is trying to shed some of these obligations via bankruptcy proceedings, but management is finding out that unionized rank-and-file workers aren’t on board with these concessions and want the company to uphold its collective bargaining agreements made in better times. The rising cost of ingredients like flour and sugar also put a squeeze on Hostess’s bottom line. The company wasn’t always in such dire straits, of course. Founded in 1930 as the Interstate Bakeries Corporation, it expanded through the decades, and bought the manufacturer of Hostess snack cakes and Wonder Bread from then-owner Ralston Purina in 1995. It changed its name to Hostess Brands in 2009 after emerging from a 2004 bankruptcy with $130 million in private equity funding and $110 million in labor concessions. (MORE: Wendy’s Beats Burger King — By Rounding Its Hamburgers?) Perhaps not surprisingly, identifying itself with cakes wrapped in plastic didn’t go over so well in an Atkins-diet, gluten-free marketplace. “With respect to marketing, their overwhelming image is sugar and starch,” says MIT Sloan School of Management professor John Little. “The baby boomers are desperately trying to lose weight to live longer. Their echo, Gen Y, is just as desperately trying to not to gain weight,” Little says. “Hostess needs some new or repositioned products to serve these markets.” Sales of Twinkies fell 2% last year from the previous year. Hostess does own the more health-conscious Nature’s Pride bread line, but back in Januar,y when rumors of a forthcoming bankruptcy were swirling, an analyst quoted by the Wall Street Journal said that that too wasn’t selling well. PrivCo estimates that Hostess Brands’ revenue dropped more than half a billion dollars over the past five years and is down to about $2.5 billion. “As Americans both cut back spending on baked goods, as well as began moving to healthier eating options, Hostess was hit harder than its peers as it failed to innovate to offer fresher, healthier baked goods,” Hamadeh says. (MORE: Craft Beer Gets the ‘Fast-Casual’ Treatment) The big question is whether these problems are baked in too deeply for the company to turn itself around.

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Downfield proton chemical shifts are not reliable aromaticity indicators. [structure: see text] The downfield chemical shifts of arene hydrogens (delta (1)H) are due only in part to the pi ring current contribution [sigma(//)(pi)]; local framework effects are equally important. Neither proton chemical shifts nor even sigma(||)(pi) tensor elements, per se, are reliable aromaticity indicators. Unsaturated polycyclic hydrocarbons with nonaromatic quinoid structures have delta (1)H and sigma(//)(pi) values in the "aromatic range". Conversely, numerous aromatic protons, including those in five-membered ring heterocycles, resonate in the "nonaromatic range".

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987 So.2d 286 (2008) STATE of Louisiana v. Robert JACOBS. No. 2007-1370. Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit. June 5, 2008. *287 Michael Harson, District Attorney, Michele S. Billeaud, Assistant District Attorney, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee, State of Louisiana. Carey J. Ellis, III, Louisiana Appellate Project, Rayville, LA, for Defendant/Appellant, Robert Jacobs. Robert Jacobs, Basile, LA, In Proper Person. Court composed of JOHN D. SAUNDERS, GLENN B. GREMILLION, and ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, Judges. GREMILLION, Judge. In this case, Defendant, Robert Jacobs, was found guilty of one count of forcible rape, in violation of La.R.S. 14:42.1, and one count of aggravated burglary, in violation of La.R.S. 14:60. Thereafter, he was sentenced to thirty years at hard labor for the forcible rape conviction and ten years at hard labor for the aggravated burglary conviction with the sentences to run concurrently. This appeal followed. *288 Appellate counsel filed an Anders brief in this matter. Upon completion of a thorough independent review of the record, as required by State v. Benjamin, 573 So.2d 528 (La.App. 4 Cir.1990), we identified a non-frivolous issue and denied defense counsel's motion to withdraw and ordered both the State and Defendant to brief the issue of double jeopardy. Defendant filed a pro se brief alleging that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction and that his sentence was excessive. For the following reasons, we hold that the convictions for aggravated burglary and forcible rape constitute double jeopardy. Therefore, we reverse the conviction for aggravated burglary, enter a conviction for simple burglary, and remand the matter for resentencing on the simple burglary conviction. We find that Defendant's pro se assignments lack merit, and we affirm the conviction of forcible rape. SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE When multiple issues are raised on appeal and sufficiency of the evidence is one of the alleged errors, the reviewing court should first determine whether the evidence is sufficient, as a ruling that the evidence is insufficient would necessitate an acquittal. State v. Hearold, 603 So.2d 731 (La.1992). In his first pro se assignment of error, Defendant alleges insufficiency of evidence. Even though we find that this assignment of error without merit under Hearold, we shall address it first in our discussion. In State v. Touchet, 04-1027, pp. 1-2 (La.App. 3 Cir. 3/9/05), 897 So.2d 900, 902, this court stated: With regard to sufficiency of the evidence, this court sets forth as follows in State v. Lambert, 97-64, pp. 4-5 (La. App. 3 Cir. 9/30/98), 720 So.2d 724, 726-27: When the issue of sufficiency of evidence is raised on appeal, the critical inquiry of the reviewing court is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979); State ex rel. Graffagnino v. King, 436 So.2d 559 (La.1983); State v. Duncan, 420 So.2d 1105 (La.1982); State v. Moody, 393 So.2d 1212 (La. 1981). It is the role of the fact finder to weigh the respective credibility of the witnesses. Therefore, the appellate court should not second-guess the credibility determination of the trier of fact beyond the sufficiency evaluations under the Jackson standard of review. See King, 436 So.2d 559, citing State v. Richardson, 425 So.2d 1228 (La.1983). In order for the State to obtain a conviction, it must prove the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. In order for this court to affirm a conviction, the record must reflect that the State has satisfied this burden of proving the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Kennerson, 96-1518 (La.App. 3 Cir. 5/7/97), 695 So.2d 1367. Defendant in this case was convicted of one count of forcible rape in violation of La.R.S. 14:42.1(A), which states in part: Forcible rape is rape committed when the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of *289 physical violence under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent the rape. At trial, the State offered the victim's testimony that Defendant broke into her motel room, took the money from her purse, and engaged in non-consensual sex with her. He fondled her breast before having intercourse with her and she reasonably believed that resisting his advances would not have prevented the rape. The second offense Defendant was convicted of was aggravated burglary in violation of La.R.S. 14:60, which states, in pertinent part: Aggravated burglary is the unauthorized entering of any inhabited dwelling, or of any structure, water craft, or movable where a person is present, with the intent to commit a felony or any theft therein, if the offender, (1) Is armed with a dangerous weapon; or (2) After entering arms himself with a dangerous weapon; or (3) Commits a battery upon any person while in such place, or in entering or leaving such place. Based on the evidence presented, we find that sufficient evidence was presented to support the charge of forcible rape and aggravated battery. However, we find, as follows, that the evidence cannot be used to support both charges as that constitutes a violation of double jeopardy. DOUBLE JEOPARDY In State v. Cloud, 06-877 (La. App. 3 Cir. 12/13/06), 946 So.2d 265, 269-70, writ denied, 07-0086 (La.9/21/07), 964 So.2d 331, we summarized the analysis required in determining double jeopardy: In State v. Barton, 02-163, pp. 17-18, (La.App. 5 Cir. 9/30/03), 857 So.2d 1189, 1201-02, writ denied, 03-3012 (La.2/20/04), 866 So.2d 817, the court summarized the two tests used by Louisiana courts use [sic] in examining violations of double jeopardy as follows: The "distinct fact" test, commonly referred to as the Blockburger test, is taken from Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299, 304, 52 S.Ct. 180, 182, 76 L.Ed. 306 (1932) as follows: The applicable rule is that where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one, is whether each provision requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not. Accord, State v. Knowles, 392 So.2d 651, 654 (La.1980). The second test is the "same evidence" test. In State v. Steele, 387 So.2d 1175, 1177 (La.1980), the Louisiana Supreme Court explained that test as follows: If the evidence required to support a finding of guilt of one crime would also have supported conviction of the other, the two are the same offense under a plea of double jeopardy, and a defendant can be placed in jeopardy for only one. The test depends on the evidence necessary for conviction, not all the evidence introduced at trial.... The "same evidence" test is broader than Blockburger, "the central idea being that one should not be punished (or put in jeopardy) twice for the same course of conduct." State v. Steele, 387 So.2d at 1177. Although the Louisiana Supreme Court has accepted both the Blockburger test and the same evidence test, it has principally relied on the "same evidence" test to evaluate double *290 jeopardy claims. State v. Miller, 571 So.2d 603, 606 (La.1990). In his supplemental brief, Defendant alleges his convictions for aggravated burglary and forcible rape violate the principles of double jeopardy as the evidence necessary to prove the aggravated burglary offense is the same evidence necessary to prove the forcible rape offense. Our review of the record reveals that Defendant in this case was not armed with a dangerous weapon when he entered the victim's hotel room, nor did he arm himself with a dangerous weapon while within. Accordingly, the only possible theory available to sustain an aggravated burglary conviction is that he committed a battery while in the room. "Battery is the intentional use of force or violence upon the person of another...." La.R.S. 14:33. Accordingly, we find that Defendant's rape of the victim constituted a battery as defined in La.R.S. 14:33. In State v. Joseph, 05-186 (La.App. 3 Cir. 11/2/05), 916 So.2d 378, we vacated an armed robbery conviction on the basis that the defendant had also been convicted of aggravated burglary, where at trial, the same evidence would have been used to secure both convictions. The defendant in Joseph kicked down the front door and entered the home of the victim and took a gun from her. Joseph, 916 So.2d 378. It was determined at the guilty plea proceedings that the defendant took nothing else from her. Id. On appeal, the defendant argued that since at the time he broke into the victim's home and took the gun from her he was not armed, he could not be charged with armed robbery. The court in Joseph held: The state specifically stated that the "taking" upon which the charge of armed robbery was based was the gun taken from Mrs. Dartez. Charging the defendant with both aggravated burglary and armed robbery, based upon the same set of facts, clearly violates the "same evidence" test as set forth in [State v.] Crosby [, 338 So.2d 584 (La. 1976),] and [State v.] Steele [, 387 So.2d 1175 (La.1980) ]. Id. at 384. In a recent case, State v. Williams, 07-931, p. 3 (La.2/26/08), 978 So.2d 895, 896, the supreme court discussed the issue of the State's recourse when it violated a defendant's constitutional right against double jeopardy and stated: As opposed to quashing the prosecution altogether and setting aside defendant's guilty plea and sentence, the court of appeal should have, assuming the correctness of its premise, reduced defendant's conviction to the misdemeanor offense of flight from an officer under R.S. 14:108.1(A) and remanded the case to the trial court for resentencing. In Williams, the defendant pled guilty to aggravated flight from an officer, in violation of La.R.S. 14:108.1(C), as well as several other traffic related offenses. Id. On appeal, the defendant claimed that charging him with aggravated flight from an officer in conjunction with the underlying traffic offenses constituted a double jeopardy violation; the appellate court reversed the defendant's conviction for aggravated flight from an officer. Id. The supreme court noted that the appellate court had properly determined that the same evidence of the underlying traffic offenses was the bases for bringing the aggravated flight from an officer offense, and thus, a double jeopardy violation occurred. Id. However, as noted above, when reversing the ruling of the appellate court, the supreme court stated that it was unnecessary to vacate the prosecution altogether if there was evidence presented at trial to find the defendant guilty of a lesser *291 included offense that was not barred by double jeopardy. Id. In our review of the record, we find that sufficient evidence was presented at trial to find Defendant guilty of simple burglary. La.R.S. 14:62(A) defines simple burglary as "the unauthorized entering of any dwelling, vehicle, watercraft, or other structure, movable or immovable, or any cemetery, with the intent to commit a felony or any theft therein as set forth in R.S. 14:60." The record indicates that Defendant broke into the victim's hotel room and stole between $180.00 and $200.00 from her purse. Those facts establish the basis for a simple burglary conviction. Accordingly, we agree with Defendant's allegation that his prosecution for both forcible rape and aggravated burglary constituted a double jeopardy violation and the conviction for the aggravated burglary is reversed. Joseph, 916 So.2d 378. However, in accordance with Williams, we shall enter a verdict of guilty of the lesser included offense, simple burglary. Williams, 978 So.2d 895. See also La.Code Crim.P. art. 814(A)(42). EXCESSIVE SENTENCE In his second pro se assignment of error, Defendant alleges that his sentences are excessive. Since we have reversed Defendant's conviction for aggravated burglary conviction based on double jeopardy, we will not address his excessive sentence claim as to that conviction. As the Defendant's only allegation is that his sentences are excessive, we will evaluate this claim as a bare claim of excessiveness. We have set forth the following standard to be used in reviewing excessive sentence claims: La. Const. art. I, § 20 guarantees that, "[n]o law shall subject any person to cruel or unusual punishment." To constitute an excessive sentence, the reviewing court must find the penalty so grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime as to shock our sense of justice or that the sentence makes no measurable contribution to acceptable penal goals and is, therefore, nothing more than a needless imposition of pain and suffering. State v. Campbell, 404 So.2d 1205 (La.1981). The trial court has wide discretion in the imposition of sentence within the statutory limits and such sentence shall not be set aside as excessive absent a manifest abuse of discretion. State v. Etienne, 99-192 (La.App. 3 Cir. 10/13/99); 746 So.2d 124, writ denied, 00-0165 (La.6/30/00); 765 So.2d 1067. The relevant question is whether the trial court abused its broad sentencing discretion, not whether another sentence might have been more appropriate. State v. Cook, 95-2784 (La.5/31/96); 674 So.2d 957, cert. denied, 519 U.S. 1043, 117 S.Ct. 615, 136 L.Ed.2d 539 (1996). State v. Barling, 00-1241, 00-1591, p. 12 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1/31/01), 779 So.2d 1035, 1042-43, writ denied, 01-0838 (La.2/1/02), 808 So.2d 331. In order to decide whether a sentence shocks the sense of justice or makes no meaningful contribution to acceptable penal goals, we have also held: [A]n appellate court may consider several factors including the nature of the offense, the circumstances of the offender, the legislative purpose behind the punishment and a comparison of the sentences imposed for similar crimes. State v. Smith, 99-0606 (La.7/6/00); 766 So.2d 501. While a comparison of sentences imposed for similar crimes may provide some insight, "it is well settled that sentences must be individualized to the particular offender and to the particular offense committed." State v. Batiste, 594 So.2d 1 (La.App. 1 Cir.1991). *292 Additionally, it is within the purview of the trial court to particularize the sentence because the trial judge "remains in the best position to assess the aggravating and mitigating circumstances presented by each case." State v. Cook, 95-2784 (La.5/31/96); 674 So.2d 957, 958. State v. Smith, 02-719, p. 4 (La.App. 3 Cir. 2/12/03), 846 So.2d 786, 789, writ denied, 03-0562 (La.5/30/03), 845 So.2d 1061. In the instant case, Defendant was convicted of forcible rape, in violation of La. R.S. 14:42.1. The maximum sentence for said offense is forty years at hard labor. La.R.S. 14:42.1. For this conviction, the trial court sentenced the Defendant to serve thirty years at hard labor. At sentencing, the trial court reviewed the Defendant's criminal history which included: a 1980 conviction in North Carolina for breaking and entering and larceny; a 1985 conviction for simple assault; a 1994 conviction in North Carolina for distribution of a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance; a 1994 conviction in North Carolina for possession with intent to distribute cocaine; a 1996 conviction for simple burglary; a 1991 conviction in North Carolina for DWI; a 2001 conviction for distribution of a Schedule I controlled dangerous substance; a 2001 conviction in North Carolina for DWI second; and a 2003 conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia. Also at sentencing, the trial court considered the aggravating circumstances of the offenses, and stated: First is the brutality of the crime for which he was convicted and the evidence at trial showed the following: The victim, [L.S.], a visitor to Lafayette who was — who had rented a room at the Roadway Inn, was awakened April 15, 1996 at about 3:30 a.m. She was awakened by a loud crashing sound and the presence of a black male standing above her in the room. She stated that the offender demanded money and her car keys or he would shoot her. [L.S.] gave him a hundred and seventy to two hundred dollars ($170.00-$200.00) in cash from her purse. Mr. Jacobs then removed the bed sheet and proceeded to rape [L.S.][1] Initially, we note that the sentence is not the maximum that Defendant could have received. Moreover, we find that the sentence imposed by the trial court is clearly supported by the record. See State v. Carter, 04-482 (La.App. 5 Cir. 10/26/04), 888 So.2d 928, where the trial court held that a thirty-seven-year enhanced habitual offender sentence for forcible rape was not excessive. Accordingly, Defendant's allegation that his sentence is excessive is without merit. CONCLUSION We find that the convictions for aggravated burglary and forcible rape constitute double jeopardy. Therefore, the conviction for aggravated burglary is reversed. However, we enter a conviction for simple burglary and remand the matter for resentencing on the simple burglary conviction. We find no merit in Defendant's other assignments of error and affirm the conviction for forcible rape and the sentence of thirty years at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, CONVICTION ENTERED, AND REMANDED FOR SENTENCING. SAUNDERS, J., agrees in part, dissents in part, and assigns written reasons. *293 SAUNDERS, J., agrees in part, dissents in part, and assigns written reasons. I agree with the majority opinion that Defendant's sentence for forcible rape was not excessive. However, I disagree with the majority that Defendant's conviction for aggravated burglary should be reversed. Aggravated burglary is defined in La. R.S. 14:60, which states, in pertinent part: Aggravated burglary is the unauthorized entering of any inhabited dwelling, or of any structure, water craft, or movable where a person is present, with the intent to commit a felony or any theft therein, if the offender, (1) Is armed with a dangerous weapon; or (2) After entering arms himself with a dangerous weapon; or (3) Commits a battery upon any person while in such place, or in entering or leaving such place. The majority finds that under the "same evidence" test in State v. Steele, 387 So.2d 1175 (La.1980), Defendant's convictions for aggravated burglary and forcible rape violate the principles of double jeopardy as the evidence necessary to prove the aggravated burglary offense is the same evidence necessary to prove the forcible rape offense. I do not agree. Our rape statute, La.R.S. 14:41, states that "any sexual penetration, when the rape involves vaginal or anal intercourse, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime." Louisiana Revised Statute 14:33 defines battery, in pertinent part, as "the intentional use of force or violence upon the person of another...." Defendant was convicted of forcible rape in violation of La.R.S. 14:42.1(A), which states in part: Forcible rape is rape committed when the anal, oral or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of physical violence under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent rape. Our supreme court, in State v. Ordodi, 06-207, pp. 14-15 (La.11/29/06), 946 So.2d 654, 662, overturned this court's reversal of a conviction by stating, "[i]n reviewing the evidence of the defendant's actions ... we cannot say that the jury's determination is irrational under the facts and circumstances presented to them." I read Ordodi to stand for the principle that we should uphold a conviction if we can find that the totality of the circumstances give the jury a rational basis to find a certain element of a crime, regardless of whether the court or jury can elucidate which specific action(s) made the finding rational. In the present case, the victim testified that Defendant fondled her breasts after he had entered the dwelling she was inhabiting without authorization. Thus, the jury rationally could have found that Defendant, once he entered the hotel room, committed a garden variety battery upon the victim prior to committing the battery by penetration necessary to constitute forcible rape. Such a finding would necessitate upholding Defendant's conviction for aggravated burglary. Fondling the victim's breasts would serve as the battery necessary after entering the inhabited dwelling in order for Defendant to be guilty of aggravated burglary. However, it would not serve as the specific type of battery necessitated by forcible rape, i.e. "anal, oral or vaginal sexual intercourse" or even generic rape, *294 "any sexual penetration." Had Defendant entered the room, fondled the victim's breasts, then left, he could not be convicted of forcible rape, but he could have been convicted of aggravated battery. Here, two mutually exclusive sets of evidence exist in order to convict Defendant of both aggravated burglary and forcible rape. In regards to aggravated burglary, Defendant: • 1) entered an inhabited dwelling without authorization (the hotel room); • 2) where a person is present (the victim); • 3) with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein; and • 4) committed a battery upon any person while in such place (fondled the victim's breasts). In regards to forcible rape, per the victim's testimony, Defendant: • 1) had anal, oral or vaginal sexual intercourse with her; • 2) without her lawful consent; • 3) when she was prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of physical violence where she reasonably believed that resisting his advances would not have prevented the rape. I think that it is clear that these are two separate courses of conduct proven by mutually exclusive sets of evidence. Neither require the "same evidence" to prove every element of each crime. Therefore, I feel that Defendant's conviction for aggravated burglary should be affirmed. NOTES [1] We use of the initials of the victim in compliance with La.R.S. 46:1844(W).

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Generally, an LSI test is performed by using automatic test equipment (ATE). Test data used in the ATE is generated by using the ATPG tool which can automatically generate a test pattern satisfying a remarkably high coverage (failure detection) in a short time. The test pattern generated by this ATPG tool (hereinafter, referred to as ATPG pattern) is used to verify system operation and timing, and is converted to a pattern to be interfaced to the ATE. FIG. 1 is a flowchart which shows an outline of a conventional timing verification method for LSI test data. As shown in FIG. 1, conventionally, test synthesis is first performed based on a first netlist 121 (chip data 1) according to a specification based on customer requests or the like (step S121). Layout processing such as a cell arrangement and intercell wiring are performed based on a resultant second netlist 122 (chip data 2) (step S122). The ATPG tool automatically generates an ATPG pattern based on a resultant third netlist 123 (chip data 3) (step S123). Data (test vector) 124 comprising the generated ATPG pattern is used to perform a timing verification with a gate simulation (step S124). This timing verification is started at the stage when verification of the system operation is almost completed. The verification of the system operation is omitted in FIG. 1. When a violation is found as the result of the simulation, the first to third netlists 121, 122 and 123, and data (test vector) 124 are appropriately corrected (step S125). When the result of the gate simulation is good, the test vector is released to a production division (step S126), data (test vector) 125 comprising the test vector without violation is converted to an ATE data format (step S127). Thus, data (test vector) 126 comprising the ATE test vector is acquired. So far, the timing-verified test data is acquired. The acquired test data is used for an ATE test (step S128). However, in recent years, a large scaling of an LSI has been advanced, and the data amount of the ATPG pattern has been remarkably increased. Therefore, there has been a problem that it takes an enormous time for the gate simulation. Further, when a timing failure is found with the simulation, the gate simulation is performed again after the failure is corrected, and therefore there has been a problem that it takes an enormous time to acquire verified test data. Further, there has been a problem that the data amount of the ATPG pattern is large and therefore a design environment such as a disk capacity to be used is pressed when the ATPG pattern is converted to the ATE pattern after the timing verification, or that it takes a very long time to handle the data. As a measure against the problem that the gate simulation time is long, it is considered that the timing verification is performed on only a part of the ATPG patterns to reduce the verification time. However, with this, the timing verification is not performed on all the ATPG patterns, thereby, a yield in a shipment test may be greatly reduced. When it is necessary to correct a critical portion (critical path) on the system operation as a result of the timing verification, a designer is burdened with finding the portion to be corrected from the ATPG patterns and manually performing a pattern correction. Generally, with respect to the system operation, a static timing analysis tool (hereinafter, referred to as STA) is used to perform the timing verification for a synchronous circuit portion, and the gate simulation is performed only for an asynchronous circuit portion. Further, with respect to function verification, a formal verification tool is used to reduce the number of steps in the entire verification. As described above, in the other verification than the timing verification of the ATPG pattern, the verification time is reduced. However, the STA is not used for the timing verification of the ATPG pattern. The reason is because, since a semiconductor designer does not know how to perform the timing verification of the test circuit automatically generated through test synthesis, a condition of the STA cannot be set. Further, the reason is because, since the result of performing the timing verification with the STA cannot be input into the ATPG tool and reflected, there is no assurance of a coincidence between the result of static timing analysis and the ATPG pattern. Further, when a test mode is erroneously set, a timing verification may be failed. Further, as another reason why the STA is not used for the timing verification of the ATPG pattern, a high-speed simulator dedicated to a scan pattern may be considered. This high-speed simulator performs a reduction of a simulation time by omitting the timing verification with respect to a shift operation of the scan pattern. However, due to enlargement of LSI in recent years, it takes a very long time for the simulation even when this high-speed simulator is used.

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Ethanol has no effect on cAMP-dependent protein kinase-, protein kinase C-, or Ca(2+)-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II-stimulated phosphorylation of highly purified substrates in vitro. The actions of ethanol on kinase stimulated phosphorylation were examined using highly purified protein kinases and a variety of purified substrates. Ethanol (25-200 mM) failed to alter the phosphorylation of histone IIa and histone IIIs by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and protein kinase C (PKC), respectively. Moreover, ethanol (25-200 mM) did not affect the phosphorylation of synapsin I by Ca(2+)-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CAM kinase II). Finally, neither PKA nor PKC stimulated phosphorylation of the GABAA receptor (GABAA-R) was modulated by ethanol at any concentration of ethanol tested. These results suggest that ethanol, in pharmacological concentrations, has no direct actions on the ability of these kinases to catalyze the phosphorylation of specific substrate proteins. In particular, ethanol does not appear to directly influence GABAA-R phosphorylation by either PKA or PKC.

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Tag Archives | spiritual life This post looks at the strictness of spiritual Masters and the discipline needed to follow a lifelong spiritual life. *** I grew up in Yorkshire and when I went down south to Oxford University – for comedic purposes – I would often exaggerate about how tough and grim life was up north. So it’s not surprising that one of my favourite comedy sketches is Monty Python and the Four Yorkshireman. *** When I joined the Sri Chinmoy Centre, I would love to hear stories about disciples visiting Sri Chinmoy in New York. The stories were inspiring but also sounded quite intense – getting up at 6am to meditate, then running, then more meditation – then activities and more meditations until the early hours of the morning. Then you would hear an older disciple say: “well you should have been around in the 1970s – we used to have to get up at 3am to get a bus in from Manhattan, for a 5am meditation, 10 mile run, and that was all before breakfast…” And so it would go on, each disciple explaining in greater detail the tremendous intensity and great spiritual focus of life in New York. Though when I went to New York in 2000, I found a very relaxed atmosphere to complement the meditations. The disciples never mentioned how much time they spent eating and going to coffee shops. Anyway, whatever stories of all night meditations and early morning marathons, it is hard to beat the discipline and intensity of some of the really strict Indian spiritual Masters, such as Devadas Maharaj, Swami Yutkeswar, and of course the famous yogi Milarepa. At the same time, when we read about these genuine spiritual Masters, we feel the outer strictness is a complement to the inner love and concern. It is this real love and concern, which is behind the efforts to guide, mould and shape the aspiring human seeker. On one occasion, Sri Chinmoy was asking a few disciples if they could stay on a Christmas Trip (spiritual vacation in Bali at five star hotel) for another week. This was Sri Chinmoy’s simple request, but it is the kind of request we might find hard to fulfil. At the time, we think of our work responsibilities and it can become hard to prioritise the spiritual life. In seeking the eternal, it is tempting to think we have eternal time. We want realisation, but we feel it can always put it off to a later date. On paper, it is easy to prioritise spirituality, but in practise it can be more difficult. In Sri Chinmoy’s lifetime, I missed out on a few opportunities to travel and see my Guru and his unique Peace Concerts – opportunities I will never have again. My economist mind would weigh up the pros and cons, costs and benefits, and often took the conservative approach and didn’t go to as much as I could. Now these golden opportunities are no more. Even now, having the determination to prioritise the spiritual life in simple ways requires a deep commitment and determination. I appreciate any seeker who can follow a spiritual discipline year in year out. By contrast to our own fumbling attempts at obedience and discipline, through the ages you can hear some remarkable stories of devotion and obedience from the really great seekers and yogis. These stories are worth cherishing because they can remind me us of the benefits and beauty of a dogged determination. Milarepa’s determination In Milarepa’s case, his Guru told him to build a house. Milarepa was surprised because he hoped that he would be learning advanced meditation techniques – not manual labour. But, feeling obedience to his Guru was the highest ideal, he did build the house as instructed. On completing the house, far from praising his disciple, his Guru said that the house was not satisfactory – he must knock it down and start again. Milarepa did this – he knocked it down and built it to the new specifications. But on nine occasions, his Guru said it wasn’t good enough and he had to rebuild the house. It was only Milarepa’s burning aspiration and desire to realise the highest that kept him obeying his Guru’s seemingly tough outer commands and outer indifference. Eventually, after many years of hard toil, Milarepa burnt off his bad karma and was rewarded with realisation; he became a famous yogi known throughout Tibet, and later the world. But, ten years of building houses and knocking them down certainly puts spending money on an air ticket to Prague into perspective. Of course, spiritual Masters have to deal with seekers of different capacities. To one seeker, a daily ten minute meditation may be tremendous progress and real effort. To another seeker, the Master may see they have the capacity to meditate from 5am in the morning. A real Master will always care for the highest potential of his disciple – and this may well involve challenging them to go out of their comfort zone. A Master is also concerned in keeping his disciples balanced. It is sometimes the ego, which likes to choose the hardest path, but suffering is no guarantee of progress. A seeker of the calibre of Milarepa is rare indeed! Following is a story by Sri Chinmoy about the spiritual Master, Devadas Maharaj and his disciple Ramdas. Ramdas had tremendous potential and capacity, but the story is instructive for showing how a real spiritual Master is willing to show tough love in order to get the best from his disciple. When I think about the difficulty of getting up at 6am to meditate after seven hours sleep, I shall think of this story. **** This is my last warning When Ramdas was a young boy, one night he and his Guru, Devadas Maharaj, were meditating separately at different places. It was snowing heavily and the weather was extremely cold. Each one had an open fire in front of him to keep him warm. Ramdas meditated a few hours; then he fell asleep. When he woke up, he saw that the fire was totally extinguished. He was frightened to death, for he knew that his Master would be furious if he went to him to get a few burning coals. But at the same time he was unable to bear the cold weather. Finally he mustered courage and went to his Master for a few burning charcoals. Devadas Maharaj came out of his trance and insulted Ramdas mercilessly. “Who asked you to leave your parents and your family if sleep is so important in your life?” he shouted. “This is my last warning. If you ever fall asleep again when you are supposed to be meditating, I shall not keep you as my disciple. You do not deserve to be my disciple.”

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Q: Plotting different PDFs of a distribution in the same graph How would I plot the PDF (probability density function) of WeibullDistribution[1/5, 50], WeibullDistribution[1/4, 40], WeibullDistribution[1/3, 30] and WeibullDistribution[1/2, 20] in the same graph? A: Here is a simple way. The Evaluate is needed to ensure the line colors are different (see this question for an explanation of this). Plot[Evaluate[ PDF[WeibullDistribution[1/#, 10 #], x] & /@ Range[2, 5]], {x, 0.1, 5}] As noted in the documentation, Plot and related functions quite happily draw multiple lines if they are given a list of functions (or data in the case of ListPlot and friends) as their first argument. Notice the use of Map (/@) and a pure function to avoid having to type out the WeibullDistribution bit of the code multiple times. (This page in the documentation will be useful in this regard.) A: Another way to write Verbeia's code: Plot[#, {x, 0.1, 5}] & @ Array[PDF[WeibullDistribution[1/#, 10 #], x] &, 4, 2]

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Corrosive gastritis mimicking linitis plastica carcinoma. A 59-year-old female with depressive tendencies was admitted suffering from hematemesis and abdominal pain, two hours after ingestion of an unknown amount of toilet bowl cleaner (hydrochloric acid, pH 1.0). A barium study 24 days after ingestion revealed rigid narrowing and granulation of the entire stomach. The esophagus and duodenum were normal. The radiographic results were similar to those obtained for linitis plastica carcinoma of the stomach, but biopsy specimens of the stomach revealed no cancer cells. A total gastrectomy was performed about two months after ingestion to relieve the persistent feeling of nausea. Specimens revealed a rigid and thickening lining and a denuded mucosal surface of the stomach. The cut surface of the specimen showed a remarkable fibrous thickening of the submucosal layer. Microscopic examination failed to reveal a normal mucosal layer except in a narrow area of the fornix, and remarkable fibrosis of the submucosal lining was noted. No cancer cells were found. Corrosive gastritis has a linitis plastica appearance with a predilection for the antrum. Radiological examination revealed the very rare manifestation of a rigid narrowing of the whole stomach mimicking linitis plastica type cancer.

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Q: ¿Como saber si ya existe un archivo para no sobre escribirlo? soy principiante, lo que estoy haciendo es un formulario que se guarde en un documento .txt, el problema es que cuando se guarda no se sabe si ya existe con ese nombre o no y si pones el mismo nombre se escribe encima del que ya existía, si me pueden ayudar por favor. <?php $folio = $_POST["folio"]; $fecha = $_POST["fecha"]; $hora = $_POST["hora"]; $nombre = $_POST["nombre"]; $apellido = $_POST["apellido"]; $producto = $_POST["producto"]; $pt = $_POST["pt"]; $Contenido = " VULKA ELEFANTE | VENTAS Folio: $folio Fecha: $fecha Hora: $hora ------------------------------ Nombre: $nombre Apellido: $apellido ------------------------------ Servico o Producto: $producto Precio Total: $pt "; $nombre_fichero = 'ventas/$folio.txt'; if (file_exists($nombre_fichero)) { echo "El fichero $nombre_fichero ya existe - Favor de introducir un nuevo numero de folio."; } else { echo "El fichero $nombre_fichero no existe"; $archivo=fopen("Ventas/N° Folio $folio.txt", "w"); fwrite($archivo,$Contenido); } header('Location: ventas.php'); ?> A: El error lo tienes en la línea: $nombre_fichero = 'ventas/$folio.txt'; Tienes dos opciones para incluir una variable en un string de PHP: usar comillas dobles $nombre_fichero = "ventas/$folio.txt"; concatenar $nombre_fichero = 'ventas/'.$folio.'.txt'; Para buscar ficheros a mí me gusta más la función glob(), pues me permite utilizar comodines: *, ? y todas sus combinaciones. Sería algo así: if (glob($nombre_fichero))

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/******************************************************************************* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. *******************************************************************************/ package org.apache.ofbiz.minilang.test; import java.util.List; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.Map; import java.util.TimeZone; import org.apache.ofbiz.base.util.Debug; import org.apache.ofbiz.base.util.UtilMisc; import org.apache.ofbiz.base.util.UtilProperties; import org.apache.ofbiz.base.util.UtilXml; import org.apache.ofbiz.minilang.SimpleMethod; import org.apache.ofbiz.minilang.method.MethodContext; import org.apache.ofbiz.service.testtools.OFBizTestCase; public class MiniLangTests extends OFBizTestCase { private static final String MODULE = MiniLangTests.class.getName(); private final boolean traceEnabled; public MiniLangTests(String name) { super(name); traceEnabled = "true".equals(UtilProperties.getPropertyValue("minilang", "unit.tests.trace.enabled")); } private static Map<String, Object> createContext() { return UtilMisc.toMap("locale", Locale.US, "timeZone", TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); } private MethodContext createServiceMethodContext() { MethodContext context = new MethodContext(getDispatcher().getDispatchContext(), createContext(), null); context.setUserLogin(getDispatcher().getDelegator().makeValidValue("UserLogin", UtilMisc.toMap("userLoginId", "system")), "userLogin"); if (traceEnabled) { context.setTraceOn(Debug.INFO); } return context; } private static SimpleMethod createSimpleMethod(String xmlString) throws Exception { return new SimpleMethod(UtilXml.readXmlDocument(xmlString).getDocumentElement(), MODULE); } /** * Test assignment operators. * @throws Exception the exception */ public void testAssignmentOperators() throws Exception { // <check-errors> and <add-error> tests SimpleMethod methodToTest = createSimpleMethod("<simple-method name=\"testCheckErrors\"><check-errors/></simple-method>"); MethodContext context = createServiceMethodContext(); String result = methodToTest.exec(context); assertEquals("<check-errors> success result", methodToTest.getDefaultSuccessCode(), result); List<String> messages = context.getEnv(methodToTest.getServiceErrorMessageListName()); assertNull("<check-errors> null error message list", messages); methodToTest = createSimpleMethod("<simple-method name=\"testCheckErrors\"><add-error><fail-message message=\"This should fail\"/>" + "</add-error><check-errors/></simple-method>"); context = createServiceMethodContext(); result = methodToTest.exec(context); assertEquals("<check-errors> error result", methodToTest.getDefaultErrorCode(), result); messages = context.getEnv(methodToTest.getServiceErrorMessageListName()); assertNotNull("<check-errors> error message list", messages); assertTrue("<check-errors> error message text", messages.contains("This should fail")); // <assert>, <not>, and <if-empty> tests methodToTest = createSimpleMethod("<simple-method name=\"testAssert\"><assert><not><if-empty field=\"locale\"/></not></assert>" + "<check-errors/></simple-method>"); context = createServiceMethodContext(); result = methodToTest.exec(context); assertEquals("<assert> success result", methodToTest.getDefaultSuccessCode(), result); messages = context.getEnv(methodToTest.getServiceErrorMessageListName()); assertNull("<assert> null error message list", messages); methodToTest = createSimpleMethod("<simple-method name=\"testAssert\"><assert><if-empty field=\"locale\"/></assert><check-errors/>" + "</simple-method>"); context = createServiceMethodContext(); result = methodToTest.exec(context); assertEquals("<assert> error result", methodToTest.getDefaultErrorCode(), result); messages = context.getEnv(methodToTest.getServiceErrorMessageListName()); assertNotNull("<assert> error message list", messages); String errorMessage = messages.get(0); assertTrue("<assert> error message text", errorMessage.startsWith("Assertion failed:")); } /** * Test field to result operation. * @throws Exception the exception */ public void testFieldToResultOperation() throws Exception { String simpleMethodXml = "<simple-method name=\"testFieldToResult\">" + " <set field=\"resultValue\" value=\"someResultValue\"/>" + " <set field=\"result1\" value=\"dynamicResultName\"/>" + " <field-to-result field=\"resultValue\" result-name=\"constantResultName\"/>" + " <field-to-result field=\"resultValue\" result-name=\"${result1}\"/>" + "</simple-method>"; SimpleMethod methodToTest = createSimpleMethod(simpleMethodXml); MethodContext context = createServiceMethodContext(); String result = methodToTest.exec(context); assertEquals("testFieldToResult success result", methodToTest.getDefaultSuccessCode(), result); assertEquals("Plain expression result name set", "someResultValue", context.getResult("constantResultName")); assertEquals("Nested expression result name set", "someResultValue", context.getResult("dynamicResultName")); } }

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Food is often prepared for sale by a store clerk who loads the food into a base of a plastic container, and closes the lid of the container on the base. A customer is assured that the tamper-evident container has not been opened since the time when a clerk first loaded food into it and first closed it, by constructing a pull-tab that opens the lid so the pull-tab extends at an upward incline after the first time that someone opens the lid, such as to taste a small sample of it. If a customer sees that the pull-tab is raised, then the customer knows that the container has been already tampered with and the food may be contaminated, and if the tab is completely down then the customer knows that the container has not been tampered and therefore that the food has not been contaminated.

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RV Collision Repair RV collisions is every RV owner’s worst nightmare You get involved in a collision with another vehicle and now your RV needs extensive repairs. When you crash your RV, a few of your first questions are probably going to include, “Where do I go for quality RV collision repair?” and “What does the process involve?” The first step is to bring your damaged RV to Premier Coach Works, the #1 RV collision repair shop in the state of Arizona. We’ll conduct a thorough inspection of your RV and give you a complete collision repair estimate. Most damaged RVs need one or more of the following types of repair work: RV Fiberglass Repairs RV Plumbing Repairs RV Electrical Repairs RV Structual Repairs As a full-service of RV repair shop, we handle all these RV collision improvements and more! Some of our related repairs to collision damage could include electrical repair to 12v & 110v electrical systems, interior walls and trim, interior flooring and baggage storage compartment trim repair. We also have direct relationships with the RV manufacturers for parts procurement to help expedite parts arrivals. My RV Was in A Collision, Can You Fix My Fiberglass? Yes! In fact, we specialize in RV fiberglass repairs, using special tools and equipment to make fiberglass panels, trim parts, and front and rear caps. With the ability to make fiberglass molds, we also create parts that are not easily accessible on the open market. This reduces the time it takes to fix your RV, while ensuring the replacement parts are of the highest quality. Some RV owners will attempt their own fiberglass repairs, but these repairs are more complex than they look. We always recommend leaving it to the professionals. Even a small piece of improperly installed fiberglass can lead to water saturation of the underlying wood which threatens the structural integrity of your entire RV. What Can You Do If My RV Plumbing Was Destroyed During the Collision? An RV isn’t a home away from home if the plumbing doesn’t work. We repair or replace everything from minor damage to tubes, fittings and water lines to complete overhauls of your entire plumbing system. From shower heads to water holding tanks, we do it all. We can even repair your water filtration system so you always have good-tasting water while on the road. What Are Premier Coach Works’ RV Collision Repair Capabilities? When it comes to making RV collision improvements, the skill, experience and expertise of our repair technicians can’t be beat. Our extensive industry contacts allow us to efficiently source repair parts for those that are damaged beyond repair. But we also have the ability to make custom steel and aluminum panels for any size RV. We have a full inventory of specialized tools used for metal fabricating, cutting, and bending, as well as aluminum tig welders and mig welders for steel. With our high-tech tools and experienced technicians, there’s no RV repair job we can’t handle. We rebuild damaged compartment doors and fabricate wheel well tubs, which many RV repair shops won’t attempt to do. To ensure your safety we use the reliable Matrix Wand measuring system to measure and verify the structure of every coach we repair.

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Renal failure caused by retroperitoneal involvement of Hodgkin's disease of the lymphocyte-depletion type. The paper presents the case of a man with non-functioning unilateral kidney due to retroperitoneal and renal lymph node involvement of Hodgkin's disease, which we interpreted as unilateral renal pelvic tumor. The disease had progressed rapidly to its termination and renal failure in addition to cachexia developed. Nephrostomy on the tumor-uninvolved side had failed to restore renal function and the patient died 3 days after surgery. The study concerns the lack of clinical entity of the nephrotic syndrome even in the absence of glomerulonephropathy often described in the literature dealing with Hodgkin's disease.

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The Nigerian Bobsled Team who are also the first athletes from Africa to ever qualify for the Bobsled competition appeared as guests on the Ellen DeGeneres show today. They spoke about their journey. Watch the video below…

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​“The positive relationship between parental involvement in their children’s education and students’ success in school is widely documented…..”The Underutilized Potential of Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Matthew A. Kraft, Brown University

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Frequency of parental report of problem behavior in children decreases with increasing maternal age at delivery. Child behavior problems were assessed in 1377 3-yr.-old twin pairs with the Child Behavior Check List from Achenbach (translated into Dutch language by Verhulst). The association between problem scores and maternal age at delivery of the twins was analyzed with statistical control for several potential confounding variables: birth weight of twins, maternal smoking during pregnancy, being breast or bottle fed and socioeconomic status. After controlling for all available confounding covariates, a significant linear effect for maternal age was left. Especially Externalizing behavior problems as well as the separate categories that constitute Externalizing, i.e., Aggressive, Oppositional, and Overactive, appeared to decrease continuously with increasing maternal age. This was true for both boys and girls as well as for first and secondborn twins. Evidence in support of a biological explanation of the association between maternal age and child behavior problems, is presented.

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/** * Copyright (C) 2015 by Liangliang Nan ([email protected]) * https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/liangliang/ * * This file is part of Easy3D. If it is useful in your research/work, * I would be grateful if you show your appreciation by citing it: * ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Liangliang Nan. * Easy3D: a lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient C++ * library for processing and rendering 3D data. 2018. * ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Easy3D is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 * as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * Easy3D is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ #include "camera_interpolation.h" #include <easy3d/fileio/resources.h> #include <easy3d/util/logging.h> // This example shows how to // - creat an exploration path using the key frame interpolator, // - play the path as an animation. using namespace easy3d; int main(int argc, char** argv) { // Initialize logging. logging::initialize(); const std::string& file_name = resource::directory() + "/data/building.off"; CameraIntrepolation viewer("Tutorial_204_CameraInterpolation"); if (!viewer.add_model(file_name, true)) { LOG(ERROR) << "Error: failed to load model. Please make sure the file exists and format is correct."; return EXIT_FAILURE; } return viewer.run(); }

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Antimicrobial activity of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids from Annona salzmanii D.C. Bark of Annona salzmanii D.C. (Annonaceae), used in Brazilian folk medicine, was found to contain four benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, namely reticuline, anonaine, laurelliptine and isoboldine. Only anonaine possesses some antibacterial property while all four alkaloids show some antifungal activity.

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Asian Marinated Pork Tenderloin More excuses as to why I haven’t posted a recipe recently. This time it’s because I’ve been busy touring Japan! D and I landed in Osaka (after our 14 hour direct flight from JFK) on September 16th at 6pm. The flight flew by in a flash. Dinner, lunch, a movie, 10 hours of Nyquil induced sleep and we were in a foreign land. We wrote about our first night in Japan on the travel blog so if interested check out the details there. In the full two days we’ve had here we’ve explored Osaka and Nara and are currently in Kyoto waiting for our 71 year old sky diving enthusiast couchsurfer to take us on a tour of the city. Did I say 71 year old sky diving enthusiast? Yep, as it turns out both me and him skydived over Lake Taupo in New Zealand in 2009. Small world right? As for Japan itself. It is a fascinating place. The architecture just blows me away and the food just tickles my taste buds. It is great to finally try some authentic Japanese food outside of sushi. After years of eating at Japanese restaurants abroad I realize I never tried any of the tasty Japanese delicacies outside of the standard maki rolls. In the last few days we’ve tried; dumplings, gyoza, katsudon, ramen noodle soups, okonomiyaki, takoyaki, pacific saury, silken tofu, home made miso soup, capelin, and the list goes on. And so with the theme of Asian food, today I share with you a recipe for Asian marinated pork tenderloin. I randomly came up with the ingredient combination for the marinade and wasn’t sure how the pork would turn out but I was pleasantly surprised. It was super tender and delicious. After a couple of months hibernating behind books studying , I came back to your blog and am so excited to read about your travels through food! My fiancé and I are just booking our trip for Japan and Taiwan right now, and now you’ve got me all excited about the cuisine! If you have recommendations for Tokyo or Kyoto, I’d love to hear them! Hope the studying went well! How exciting that you’ll go going to Japan and Taiwan. I absolutely love love loved Japan. Definitely had hands down the best sushi meal of my life in Tokyo – I’ll have to send you the info on the place with some other tips too! Overall the food was delicious everywhere in Japan and we never had to worry about the quality or cleanliness of the place. Where are you going in Japan – how long will you spend there? I’ve heard great things about Taiwan too!

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Khovar Khovar is the official state run news agency of Tajikistan. References External links Khovar Website Category:News agencies based in Tajikistan Category:Publications with year of establishment missing

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{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "The model is:\n", "ir_version: 3\n", "producer_name: \"backend-test\"\n", "graph {\n", " node {\n", " input: \"x\"\n", " output: \"y\"\n", " name: \"test\"\n", " op_type: \"Relu\"\n", " }\n", " name: \"SingleRelu\"\n", " input {\n", " name: \"x\"\n", " type {\n", " tensor_type {\n", " elem_type: 1\n", " shape {\n", " dim {\n", " dim_value: 1\n", " }\n", " dim {\n", " dim_value: 2\n", " }\n", " }\n", " }\n", " }\n", " }\n", " output {\n", " name: \"y\"\n", " type {\n", " tensor_type {\n", " elem_type: 1\n", " shape {\n", " dim {\n", " dim_value: 1\n", " }\n", " dim {\n", " dim_value: 2\n", " }\n", " }\n", " }\n", " }\n", " }\n", "}\n", "opset_import {\n", " version: 6\n", "}\n", "\n" ] } ], "source": [ "from __future__ import absolute_import\n", "from __future__ import division\n", "from __future__ import print_function\n", "from __future__ import unicode_literals\n", "\n", "import onnx\n", "import os\n", "\n", "\n", "# Preprocessing: load the ONNX model\n", "model_path = os.path.join('resources', 'single_relu.onnx')\n", "onnx_model = onnx.load(model_path)\n", "\n", "print('The model is:\\n{}'.format(onnx_model))" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "The model is checked!\n" ] } ], "source": [ "# Check the model\n", "onnx.checker.check_model(onnx_model)\n", "print('The model is checked!')" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 2", "language": "python", "name": "python2" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 2 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython2", "version": "2.7.5" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 2 }

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Peace talks between the US and Taliban are going to be taking a little time off for the Eid al-Adha holiday. When they come back after the holiday, the Afghan peace deal is going to be the focus again, and the expectation is it will be finalized. Hopes for a finalized deal are nothing new, but both sides are now saying they believe that a peace agreement will be reached, and signed, at some point in the this week. This will then lead to work on direct Taliban-Afghan talks on power-sharing. That’s a key issue. The deal with the US involves removing foreign troops, Taliban keeping foreign Islamists out of Afghanistan, and a ceasefire. The power-sharing deal is the last aspect of peace, and the Taliban had long resisted entering such talks until the US pullout was agreed upon. That’s likely to lead to further delays in the presidential election, tentatively set for September. The election has been delayed before over peace talks, and with a deal now imminent, a further delay is considered so probable that many candidates aren’t even bothering to start campaigning. Author: Jason Ditz Jason Ditz is news editor of Antiwar.com. View all posts by Jason Ditz

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Cardi-O-Fix duct occluder versus Amplatzer duct occluder for closure of patent ductus arteriosus. We sought to investigate the safety, efficacy, and follow-up results of percutaneous patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure using the novel Cardi-O-Fix duct occluder (CDO), a device similar to but less expensive than the Amplatzer duct occluder (ADO). We also aimed to compare these two devices in terms of results. Between March 2005 and May 2012, 167 patients diagnosed with moderate-to-large PDA underwent transcatheter closure. ADO was used in 56 (33.5%) patients with a mean age of 8.1 ± 11.9 years (3.6 months-56 years), whereas CDO was used in 111 (66.5%) patients with a mean age of 12.6 ± 14.6 years (4.8 months-63 years). The narrowest PDA diameter, the used device diameter, procedure time, fluoroscopy time, and residual shunt rates were similar between the two groups. Procedural success rate was 100% in both groups. Although the residual shunt rate was higher in the CDO group immediately after the procedure, the difference was not statistically significant (12.6 vs. 8.9%; P = 0.3). There was no statistically significant difference between groups at discharge and during follow-up. No deaths occurred in any of the groups, and there were no differences in complication rates during the short- and mid-term follow-up periods (CDO 7/111 vs. ADO 5/56; P = 0.5 π). The CDO can be used for PDA closure because of its safety, effectiveness, and simplicity in use. It is available in bigger sizes and can be used in patients with large defects. According to our short- and mid-term findings, the results it yields are similar to those of the ADO; thus, it may be the preferred choice owing to its low cost and large size variability.

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There isn’t a roster in the league that you could look up and down and say “Ehh, they couldn’t use another big man.” That’s the very reason that the Big Z-Cleveland release-and-catch is so offensive to so many teams; the move doesn’t seem like it should be legal, sure, but those who have been the most vocal about it are those threatened by Cleveland’s competition or those that would be vying for Ilgauskas’ services. Productive centers with decent size go a long way in the NBA, and true depth at the 5 is something of a Holy Grail for many championship and playoff contenders. In that light, the Nuggets’ rumored flirtations with just about every free agent big man on the NBA radar makes perfect sense. They could very well find themselves matched up against the Lakers in the playoffs, and that frontcourt? Not exactly small. L.A.’s size is one of the reasons they’re so difficult to match and match-up with. To further complicate things, Chris Andersen, a vital component of Denver’s bench and their most effective center behind Nene, isn’t well. He hasn’t been for some time, and won’t be for a long while. From Chris Dempsey of the Denver Post: On the orders of the training staff, [Andersen] sat out the second half of the Nuggets’ 101-85 loss at Phoenix on Monday. Then there was a day off before the Oklahoma City game. “With four games in five nights, it’s really not enough time for you to do as much treatment as I needed, and to get in the weight room. So it was tough,” Andersen said. “But I got a little bit of rest, even though I didn’t want to. I tried to give it a go against Phoenix, and they said just (to) sit out the rest of the half due to the fact that my knee was strained. But it’s a matter of bouncing back, because we definitely needed that game (on Wednesday). We definitely have to take care of our home court.” Andersen will likely not be 100 percent during the rest of the regular season or into the playoffs. Asked if he knows what he’ll feel like from one day to the next, Andersen said “No.” “Usually when I get up, I’m in some big pain, but that’s just the way it goes,” he said. “It’s been a tough year so far with all of the back-to-backs we’ve had. It’s just a matter of fighting through it.” Andersen’s injury is even more damaging to the Nuggets because Andersen’s real value comes in his activity level; he’s more mobile than most centers, which makes him an incredibly effective weak-side shot blocker. But when he’s enduring constant soreness and pain in a bum knee? Well, it doesn’t exactly improve his abilities as a rotating defender, that’s for sure. But these are hardly developments with Andersen’s injured knee so much as they are lingering storylines. It’s something that will chase Denver through the rest of the regular season and into the playoffs, and the only plausible solution at this point is to grab a free agent and hope they’re able to provide Chris some rest. The Nuggets just need few minutes out of a capable third center. That man is not Malik Allen , nor Johan Petro. But considering how late it is in the season and Denver’s circumstances, there may not be many other options. So they’ll chase Z, they’ll probably chase Mark Blount, or Jake Voskuhl, or some unsigned “gem.” And though expectations will likely be pretty low for a guy of Blount or Voskuhl’s caliber, they’re not needed for much: just a simple role and a simple job that could be all the difference come April, maybe May, and hopefully for the Nuggets, June. A statement released Wednesday by the NFL and NBA clubs says their 90-year-old owner is resting comfortably at Ochsner Medical Center, a hospital which also serves as a major sponsor and which owns naming rights to the teams’ training headquarters. Benson has owned the New Orleans Saints since 1985 and bought the New Orleans Pelicans in 2012. In recent years, Benson has overhauled his estate plan so that his third wife, Gayle, would be first in line to inherit control of the two major professional franchises. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said he’d be surprised if Kawhi Leonard played again this season, a stark reversal from just a month ago. Back then, even while announcing Leonard was out indefinitely with a quad injury, the San Antonio coach said Leonard wouldn’t miss the rest of the season. After spending 10 days before the All-Star break in New York consulting with a specialist to gather a second opinion on his right quad injury, All-NBA forward Kawhi Leonard bears the burden of determining when he’s prepared to play again, sources told ESPN. Leonard has been medically cleared to return from the right quad tendinopathy injury, but since shutting down a nine-game return to the Spurs that ended Jan. 13, he has elected against returning to the active roster, sources said. The uncertainty surrounding this season — and Leonard’s future which could include free agency in the summer of 2019 — has inspired a palpable stress around the organization, league sources said. At first glance, this sounds like Derrick Rose five years ago. Even after he was cleared to play following a torn ACL, the then-Bulls star remained mysterious about when he’d suit up. His confidence in his physical abilities seemed to be a major issue, and he was never the same player since (suffering more leg injuries). But the Spurs famously favor resting players to preserve long-term health. They seem unlikely to rush back Leonard. They might even sit players who want to play more often. And Leonard isn’t Rose. Still, it’s clear something is amiss in San Antonio. Maybe not amiss enough to end Leonard’s tenure there, but the longer this lingers, the more time for tension to percolate. The dunk-contest scoring system – five judges ranking dunks on a scale of 6-10 – is plenty flawed. There should have been a larger difference between the Smith and Victor Oladipo dunks the Dallas point guard mentioned. But Oladipo didn’t advance, either. Personally, I thought the right two players – eventual-winner Donovan Mitchell and runner-up Larry Nance Jr. – advanced. If Dennis had made it to the finals, Cole was going to throw him the alley-oop. But then the plan was, he was going to throw him the oop, Dennis would dunk it, and then Cole would catch the ball, and then he’d dunk it too. That was going to be the ill, craziest dunk-contest use of a prop or a person ever. But we never got to saw it, because they were holding out until the final round. They didn’t want to bring it out in the first round. This certainly would have been unprecedented and cool. But unless Smith had something amazing planned for the alley-oop, the best element would have been Cole dunking. That would have upstaged Smith, who’s presumably the one being judged. For what it’s worth, Cole can dunk. We’ve seen it in the celebrity game:

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Davenport hands HU first loss of season News By Category Archives GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The HU women’s basketball team suffered its first loss of the year, an 86-67 decision, to 8th-ranked Davenport University (2-0) Saturday afternoon at the DU Student Center. Huntington drops to 2-1 on the year and finish the Crossroads League/WHAC Challenge 1-1 having beaten Aquinas in OT on Friday 67-58. The Panthers’ run and gun offense eventually wore down the Foresters but not before Coach Culler’s crew put up a valiant fight despite the lopsided score by game’s end. Huntington played even with their hosts through the first ten minutes. Four different Foresters scored at least four points in the quarter for a 19-19 stalemate by the first buzzer. Behind back-to-back buckets by Casey Morton and Brooke Saylor, HU jumped ahead 23-19 by the 9:01 mark of the second quarter but the visitors hit a five-minute dry spell that allowed Davenport to go on a 15-2 run and grow the lead to nine with four minutes left in the half, an advantage they hung on to for a 42-33 lead heading into break. Huntington would spend the first five minutes of the third trimming the lead to six at 53-47 but Davenport’s bigs finally proved too much for Huntington to handle. 6-2 center Mallory Sewell and her backup, 6-4 Jenna Falkenberg, each scored eight points in the quarter to blow the game wide open at 69-50 heading into the fourth. The Foresters outshot Davenport, connecting on 47.0 percent of their attempts (31-for-66) to DU’s 45.2 percent (33-for-73) but the Panthers capitalized on a 47-30 rebounding edge and committed just seven miscues to HU’s 15. Huntington heads back up to Michigan on Tuesday to take on Great Lakes Christian College at 7:00 p.m. The Huntington University Foresters compete in 17 intercollegiate sports for men and women. In the past decade, Huntington has produced 38 NAIA All-America honors and 254 All-America Scholar Athlete honors. Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. U.S. News & World Report ranks Huntington among the best colleges in the Midwest.

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A Saudi teenager living n Germany has sent a proposal for a new headscarf-wearing emoji to The Unicode Consortium, which develops the popular characters. 15-year-old Rayouf Alhumedhi from Berlin said she was chatting to friends on Whatsapp when everyone picked an emoji to represent themselves. That's when she realised there wasn't one that adequately represented her, as a headscarf-wearing woman. She did some research and was delighted to find anyone can submit new emoji concepts the non-profit. When Ms Alhumedhi emailed Unicode about her idea, they responded by helping her draft a formal proposal for the consortium's consideration. “In this day and age, representation is extremely important,” Ms Alhumedhi told the BBC. “There are so many Muslim women in this world who wear the headscarf. It might seem trivial… but it's different when you see yourself on the keyboard around the world. Once you experience that, it's really great.” Ms Alhumedhi’s idea caught the idea of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who hosted an 'Ask Me Anything' discussion to boost awareness of the idea on Tuesday. In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Show all 10 1 /10 In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Demonstrators stage a beach party outside the French Embassy, in Knightsbridge, London, in protest against burkini bans PA In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Jenny Dawkins, a curate from All Saints Church in Peckham, at an anti-burkini ban protest at the French Embassy in London on 25 August Lizzie Dearden In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Demonstrators stage a beach party outside the French Embassy, in Knightsbridge, London, in protest against burkini bans PA In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Somayia Khan's six-year-old daughter at a protest against burkini bans at the French Embassy in London on 25 August Lizzie Dearden In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Friends Rebecca (L) and Hannah (R) at a protest against burkini bans at the French Embassy in London on 25 August Lizzie Dearden In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Demonstrators stage a beach party outside the French Embassy, in Knightsbridge, London, in protest against burkini bans Reuters In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Demonstrators stage a beach party outside the French Embassy, in Knightsbridge, London, in protest against burkini bans EPA In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London Demonstrators stage a beach party outside the French Embassy, in Knightsbridge, London, in protest against burkini bans AFP/Getty Images In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London People participate in a 'Wear what you want beach party' protest outside of the French Embassy in London EPA In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London A protester holds a sign which reads "Are you Burkini Beach Body Ready?" as she lies on a beach towel outside the French Embassy in London on August 25, 2016, AFP/Getty Images Emoji is the fastest growing language in the world. There have been several high profile calls for Unicode to make the characters more diverse, as well as give female emojis other occupations that their current incarnations as princesses and playboy bunnies. Unicode has said in the past they will considering coding gender neutral or female-appearing characters. "We applaud Unicode for the diversification of emojis in recent years. However, this does not mean it should stop now. With the amount of difference in this world, we must be represented," Ms Alhumedhi wrote in her proposal.

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November 11, 2009 I've been checking my Site Meter quite a few times in the last day. I've been pleased and then a little ashamed of myself as I see the phenomenal power of one particular post title to attract search engine traffic. This post was originally titled "Things the Site Meter dragged in." I've tweaked it a little to make my point. I'm not traffic-greedy — not too much. Just trying to make my point. While I was hanging out on Site Meter, a couple other things got my attention. It's my general policy not to respond to bloggers who attack me — otherwise it would be a traffic-building strategy to attack me — but I do make exceptions as the whim strikes me. So, let's look at what Roy Edroso — of Alicublog and the Village Voice is saying about me. But TMZ — I don't read it much, but, again, I'll guess — does not itself parade as Christian. Prejean does, and so she will be held to the high standards of Christianity, while TMZ can say and do whatever it wants. ("When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. ") TMZ is following Rule 4 of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals": Scripture and Saul Alinsky? This explains so much: Althouse is The Anchoress! Despite his inclusion of that St. Paul quote, Edroso cuts my quote of Alinsky's Rule 4, which happens to use Christianity as the example of the effectiveness of demanding that your enemies live up to their own rules. Alinsky wrote: "You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian Church can live up to Christianity." It's hardly some odd quirk of mine to combine scripture and Alinsky. Edroso, in his usual fashion, looks for ways to make me look flaky — along with the other bloggers he's made it his business to mock. (The link to The Anchoress hints at Edroso's approach. Check out his latest Village Voice column for a more comprehensive example of how he works.) Back to Edroso: This argument that hypocrisy doesn't exist for the Elect... What argument? Where did I argue that Christians aren't responsible for hypocrisy? I simply don't. .... is by now an old rightwing favorite.... So just pull it out of you frumpy bag of liberal complaints about right-wingers. I thought you were trying to fisk my post, Roy. But, no, I'm either this distinct writer that you love to make fun of or I'm indistinguishable in the blurry mass of rightish bloggers that you've looked at before and have grown weary of squinting at. ... and the quality of Althouse's reasoning hasn't changed much from the old days. Well, you haven't come close to nailing anything I've said in this post, so why bother to be specific about anything I've said in the past? You can't even read the post currently in front of your face, yet you think everyone already knows what it is I've said in "the old days." Maybe Roy is tired and on autopilot. But maybe, as he worked his way through what I'd written, confident in his ability to spew snark, he saw that my post actually cohered and that it was pretty damned sharp and funny, and he consciously decided to blur his observations so he could still get his post up. The poor wilted man. The option of actually liking what I'd written is inconceivable within the little framework he's built for himself. What would happen to that Village Voice gig? But the Jesus stuff was a shock. I went down into her comments... He couldn't figure out anything to say about what I wrote — "the Jesus stuff" — and, desperate, he dove into the comments looking for something repulsive. What he came up was from Florida, a specific, familiar commenter here: ... a quick scan suggests that the old let's-pretend liberals (what were their names, again? Rainbow? Sunshine?) seem to have fled or outed themselves, and the remnant are leaving stuff like this: What's difficult as hell to do is to live up to the standards that would be set up for Christians by the butt-buggering sodomites. The rapists of 13-year-old children. "Jesus stuff"... "stuff like this"... Roy is not editing and dealing with sloppy word repetitions, and, worse, he's not bothering to figure anything out. It's just stuff. He found the most unsightly quote and then — without reason — counted on his readers to believe that it exemplifies what is generally in the comments at my blog. How utterly flabby and lame. Now, as for the comment he cherry-picked, Edroso has no idea what it means and makes no attempt to figure it out. He has not, like the regular comment readers here, been exposed to the way Florida writes and the things he writes about. He doesn't know about Florida's longstanding Roman Polanski theme — which began here and which involves a fair amount of antagonism toward me. It's likely that Edroso thinks he's come across some rabid homophobia, but, in context, I know that "butt-buggering sodomites... rapists of 13-year-old children" refers to Polanski and the Hollywood-type liberals who've defended him. Florida's comment is not part of a mass of "stuff like this" in the comments. It's something particular, incisive, and satirical, and, if you are going to focus on it, you'd better take some time to figure out what it means. But Edroso is happy to see something that looked like shit and to splatter it onto his post and then, childishly, to demand that onlookers see how ugly things are over at Althouse. Amazingly, Althouse is still removing comments... Huh? Where did that come from? What comments does he think I've removed? He's trying to pin that one comment on me by asserting that I moderate the comments, so that anything that is left, I've approved of. That is either a lazy mistake or a nasty lie. My approach to the comments is well known: I have a strong free speech policy, and I leave vile things in. To imply that whatever is left has my stamp of approval is cheap and unethical. ... perhaps because they don't come up to the standards of this gem, or because they're actually messages from her employers trying to reach her because her phone has gone dead and her windows are boarded up. He ends with a comic image, intended as a play on my name, the "old house" that he's used in his post title. Unfortunately, he hasn't built the foundation for what could have been a well-written joke. The material he thought he had just wasn't there. Den Beste isn't still blogging, is he? Roy makes a second attempt at humor, and, while I'm familiar with Den Beste, I have no idea why this is supposed to be funny. Althouse is The Anchoress... Althouse is Den Beste? Everything is melting in the mind of Roy Edroso. I get that many gays want to turn Carrie Prejean into some sort of Anita Bryant, which is completely unfair, unjustified, and dishonest. As Donald Trump noted, Prejean's views on gay marriage are no different than Barack Obama's. I disagree with Prejean on that issue, but she is entitled to her opinion. I also think Perez Hilton is an ugly little troll and scab of a person. So get over it. In a way, not much different than what Andrew Sullivan did to Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin was not some anti gay person. She was Christian but not some rabid creationist, yet Sully and his mob of liars sure painted her that way. But all that said, Carrie Prejean made the decision to sue the California Ms. America Pagent. She cannot complain when they find some compromising video of her (that violate the pagent rules) and use it against her. Sorry. I would have been defending her if TMZ came out of nowhere with this and went after her, but that is not exactly what happened. Meh... yet another bored blogger taking a swipe at Althouse in the high school social-lioness vein. "Oh look, a target I can abuse with my scathing wit." I swear, sometimes I see too many bloggers take their hobby as an excuse to exercise their inner juvenile. Most of us overcame this sort of behavior before or while in high school, but then there are the Edroso's among us who never let it go. Assuming it ever becomes legal in California (hey wait California has a civil option that is marriage in every way but name) Perez Hilton could only exercise gay marriage because his exploitive site generate enough money that he could buy a husband. He could not win one otherwise. The only thing I can say is that the dark underbelly of political-correctness is the instant bellyaching at what people say. Sure, freedom of speech means being responsible for what you say (something a lot of 1st Amendment advocates tend to forget), but we're all so tense about it now...so ready for the "gotcha" moment when someone we dislike says something we don't agree with...it's obvious that the US won't rot from within. In the end, we'll all die of hypertension. "Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman." This above is Ms. Prejean's horrible double plus ungood thoughtcrime for which the left demands she be ostracized from the company of decent people everywhere. If you break it down, though, its hard to see what all the fuss is about. The first two lines seem to be very pro gay marriage. She's glad people have the right to choose, we can go either way. Past that, she shifts to a personal focus, and says, in HER LIFE, she thinks it should be between a man and a woman. That's it. That's all it takes to get the gay mafia to try to destroy you these days. Seems kind of lame in hindsight really. Kind of like the TMZ fisking above, its much ado about nothing. Yeah I know this is all about some tiny blogger swiping at Althouse, but I mean, come on. This whole Prejean story is not about anything but people's preconceived notions about gay marriage and the fact Prejean is hot. Gay advocates love showing Christians as hypocrites. But does Prejean having a position against gay marriage make her one? I do not think so. She is a young woman who made a foolish tape and did not consider that prior to filing a lawsuit. Plus stories about secret sex tapes are a sure generator of hits and comments. Lester Kinsolving always referred to the Voice as The Lower Manhattan Belch and, having seen Voice writers on the tube every now and again, particularly with Ubermoron, I can understand Les' reasonong. Ann, why would you even care about what somebody like that wrote? Somebody with something intelligent to say - Mickey Kaus, Victor Davis Hanson, Roger Simon - their opinions on my work would be welcome feedback. I loved your "The poor wilted man" comment.Standing up strong and sturdy like steel when critcised falsely has become a great talent of La Althouse, the Alaskan Rogue and the California Christian. The liberal men seem to be wilting into metrosexual boys when facing a challenger these days. I also note that Florida's florid prose is now the weapon most useful when attacking Althouse as a crazy place. Hmmm? Why is Florida's comment that sodomites will spend eternity burning in hell "unsightly" to Althouse? If you are a Christian, a genuine believing Christian as opposed to a cafeteria Christian, that's exactly where sodomites will spend eternity. So it is an honest, not an unsightly statement. Of course it is also gauche and declasse and an embarrassment to a withit bien pensant like Althouse. First things first. I originally came here thinking you were a muling idiot Lefty Ann (I can no longer remember the original lede any longer) ...and found out I was wrong. Rather, I found you're occasionally witty, generally civil, seldom petty, you have a decided panache, and you're always worth reading (even when I agree not one whit). Your one minor fault is a tendency to pay entirely too much attention - and in a too-thoughtful fashion - to people of a political 'suasion (and often juvenile vanity) that admits to no alternative viewpoint. And you - oddly, for someone of such obvious acuity - expect such to write and reason honestly. Which they simply aren't capable of. Case in point. ...I think your point about distributing her unfortunate tape being possible trafficking in child-porn, was a brilliant little insight. St. Augustine prayed to be freed from the temptations of the flesh, but not just yet. As a corollary to St. Augustine, many Christians would prefer to have Carrie Prejean as their spiritual guide rather than Mother Theresa. Florida the woman comments like a take no prisioners man with the best hostility that a conservative can muster against the liberal talking points...and then she suddenly blends in a violent insurrection comment that can easily be used to get one thrown out of the game for cause. Just as there are things best not said on Airline flights anymore,there are threats of violence that are best not said on an internet salon style Blog. He/she is a skilled writer that is well spoken and has very readable prose. That too is not the usual style seen in a authentic angry and not going to take it anymore conservative. We will see. I think there are an awful lot of men who would love to watch their wives or girlfriends masturbate with abandon to orgasm on Saturday night and then watch them pray beatifically during church the next morning. It's possible that the relationship between "Althouse" and "Den Beste" relates back to Dutch immigrants in the eighteenth century. As the story was related to me back when we were reading Edna Ferber's So Big, the immigrants were not used to using last names so they invented whimsical ones to keep the authorities happy. That's why there are so many Deyoungs (and de Youngs and De Jongs), for instance, and Van Buskirks (which I think means "from the church in the woods"). "Den Beste" is very whimsical -- "the best." Althouse and its variants (like "Althoff") probably meant that your ancestor wanted the authorities to know that he came from an old and established family (or "house," as in the House of Windsor). Strange that I can remember nuggets like this from high school but can't remember my doctor's phone number. As a corollary to St. Augustine, many Christians would prefer to have Carrie Prejean as their spiritual guide rather than Mother Theresa. Many, really? Do some folks dislike Christians because they feel they believe in a fairy tale? If so, fine then just let marinate in our delusion. Or is it that we're "hypocritical"? If so it seems you'd rather we just admit we struggle to resist temptation and not speak of a desire to live otherwise. Except that its not what we believe As Paul stated in Romans chapter 7 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do...What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? So it is an honest, not an unsightly statement.Having been told (by a used car dealer!) that I was going to hell for not going to church (the least of my sins), I believe it can be both honest and rude and off-putting. Den Beste retired on his own volition. He didn't lose his relevancy, he walked away from it. Now he blogs about anime because that's what he wants to do. Of course, that means a pretty small audience. He didn't like dealing with people who nitpicked or did their best to misunderstand him. His style is to put something out for other people to read, and to ignore any reactions he finds annoying. Even now he deletes comments or closes posts because of topic drift. Any political post he makes has comments turned off. Unfortunately, that's not how the internet works, and he just wouldn't play the game. So, he had his shot at blogging greatness and decided he wasn't up to it, or it wasn't worth it. Naturally, I don't see Althouse as being like this at all. Quite the opposite. Anyway, The Belmont Club is a lot like what Den Beste used to write, only with comments. You can even see Cedarford in a more congenial environment. Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die.Everybody wants to know the reason without even asking why.Everybody wants to be the one to laugh. Nobody wants to cry.Everybody wants to hear the truth but people keep on telling lies.Everybody wants to know the reason without even asking why.Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die. Al Fields/Tom Delaney/Timmie Rogers for Tommy Dorsey (the B side of his 1950 record, Goofus) Later performed by Ellen McIlwaine in 1972 (rereleased in 1998). Performed without attribution by Rhiannon on "Flight" I think there are an awful lot of men who would love to watch their wives or girlfriends masturbate with abandon to orgasm on Saturday night and then watch them pray beatifically during church the next morning. Careful about using Jesus' lack of mention as a source for his approval. He didn't mention all kinds of things we would even still agree are wrong. Molestation, for instance isn't mentioned. His audience was primarily conservative Jews, so he made specific mention of the sins that these folks might not be worried about. We start with the assumption that he assumed the conservative Jewish moral framework as found in Moses, and then go from there. He specifically opened the door wider in some areas so we are given leeway on such things (such as the sabbath). Indeed, he said even lusting is a sin, so it's hard to argue he had a more open sexual ethic than others of his time, when every indication suggests it was quite more narrow. At the same time, who Jesus judged was pretty much unpredictable even in the Gospels. So we can argue for a certain ethic as reflecting Scripture, but we're on shaky ground whenever we say this or that person will be certainly judged one way or another. There's a lot of stuff in Scripture (such as in Matthew 25) which seems to be quite important in the final analysis. I've long thought that heaven will be filled with people I didn't expect, and will be lacking a lot of people who I did expect. Like Aslan told the children, we're not told how anyone else's story ends. Though, if I were to venture a guess, I'd say that there's just about no way we'll be seeing the folks from Westboro baptist in the happy side of eternity. Hitler won't be there either--he messed with the wrong sort. Most other people... we're just not given the final word on that. And if we think we do, God might well remind us we don't. I think there are an awful lot of men who would love to watch their wives or girlfriends masturbate with abandon to orgasm on Saturday night and then watch them pray beatifically during church the next morning. For those of you who enjoyed his work, surely you must see others here and there on the internet who appear to be his ghost. I know I do. Whether any are Den Beste or not is probably irrelevant, but personally, I love that I still "see" him here, there and everywhere! Sometimes I even imagine that he is having some fun. Fitting that Bruce Springsteen, one of their decendants, is called the Boss. As for Althouse, I do like Altbier (old beer), which is what they call the remaining German ales (prior to the introduction of the lager yeasts and techniques in the mid 19th century, Germans mostly drank ale like their British cousins). The surname Prejean has from the the very start led me to think of Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun, and her book Dead Man Walking and how that and the film turned me in favor of the death penalty for the first time in my life and so why is she in a bikini? If the goal is to show how Edroso is not trustworthy, this post falls far short of the mark. Most people would stop reading after the first sentence and their eyes would glaze over long before the end. I try to show how people are lying and misleading and the like or that they can't think things through. And, I try to get to the point and start with one or two topic sentences telling people what I'm going to tell them. In this case, I'd comb Edroso's past entries for examples of him lying/misleading and then I'd attempt to show his readers how he misled them. For a recent example of a blog fight, see this. For something more important, here's me pointing out that Obama lied; that's part of a series. On the one hand, I don't want people in the Instapundit orbit to learn how to do things in a better way, but OTOH it's getting lonely being one of the only persons who knows how to do things the right way. "Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die.Everybody wants to know the reason without even asking why.Everybody wants to be the one to laugh. Nobody wants to cry.Everybody wants to hear the truth but people keep on telling lies.Everybody wants to know the reason without even asking why.Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die. Al Fields/Tom Delaney/Timmie Rogers for Tommy Dorsey (the B side of his 1950 record, Goofus) Later performed by Ellen McIlwaine in 1972 (rereleased in 1998). Performed without attribution by Rhiannon on "Flight"' I like Albert King's version. Ellen McIlwaine....that's a name from the past I'd forgotten about. I played with with her back in the day in Woodstock. She was a big girl with a great voice. Good guitar player too. She tried to hit on me but I couldn't go there. And if you get so upset when you perceive you've been misunderstood, why not be more expansive and direct in your posts? You spend so much time here explaining, why not have been more precise in the first place. If you don't wanna, that's fine. I get it. But you can't be surprised when your meaning and your opinions are not entirely clear. Well, I would echo those who say that comparison to Den Beste is hardly an insult. It is, however, inapt, from my limited readings of his posts. Everything I read of his was--well, you wouldn't call it elliptical. He was trying to communicate specific ideas in a clear fashion—often in a sphere which doesn't care for that sort of thing—which is why he isn't doing it any more. :) i know that it's hard to resist returning fire when attacked, but look at how the comment threads can devolve into a couple of people sniping at each other.. it's boring. honestly, i didn't 'get' your prejean post either, but so what? i find enough of interest here to make regular visits, maybe leave a thought or two of my own, and then just move along...seems to work out pretty well for me.i suggest sticking to the theory that there is no such thing as bad publicity. as unfair as the fisking may have been, you got a mention that probably sent some curious folks over to check out your site so, in the end, it's a 'win' for you. feel better now?.. wait! don't answer that!

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When Chris Sale started to slide in the first round of the draft because of signability, it was a surprise that the thrifty White Sox were the team that selected him. Now comes a bigger surprise: the first- or second-rated college pitcher on most draft boards has agreed to terms for a bonus equal to MLB’s bonus recommendation for his No. 13 slot a year ago: $1.656 million. Sale will take a physical on Monday and likely will sign his deal on Tuesday. He’s the highest-drafted player to agree to terms so far this summer. … While Sale will get less money than anticipated, the White Sox will give him every opportunity to crash their big league bullpen, perhaps as early as August. He’ll initially report to high Class A Winston-Salem, with an anticipated promotion to Triple-A Charlotte in mid-July. After spending this summer as a reliever, he’ll work in the Arizona Fall League as a starter and get the opportunity to make Chicago’s rotation in spring training next year. As for the perceived discount the Sox might have received by agreeing to terms less than two weeks after the draft, Sale has a chance to more than make up any difference with a major league promotion that would start his service time clock. In addition, that also would include a placement on the 40-man roster with a chance to make the major league team out of spring training in 2011. Inside the Pick: Every draft has one player who takes a surprising fall, and this year it was Sale. For the player some thought was the best college pitcher in the draft to fall to 13th overall is a massive get for the White Sox.What He is: Sale is the rare pitcher who combines size (6-foot-6), velocity (up to 96 mph), and plus command from the left side. His changeup was among the best in the draft, and he consistently dominated week after week, including in his few starts against top-notch competition.What He is Not: Sale’s low three-quarters arm slot gives some scouts concern. It prevents him from being able to get around on his slider, and gives right-handed hitters a very long look at the ball.Path with the White Sox: Sale shouldn’t have too many problems at the lower levels based solely on his velocity and command. If he can find a dependable breaking ball, he has a chance to really move quickly. Comments: This tall right-hander was creating a lot of buzz later in the spring when reports of him touching 98 mph spread like wildfire. His secondary stuff isn’t as good as the heater, though his curve ball has improved this year and his changeup has a chance to be a decent offering. There’s not a ton of life in the fastball, but he throws without much effort. People were pouring in to see him late, and that kind of arm strength tends to do very well in the Draft. Comments: Heading into the spring, the thought was that Reed would be one of the more sought-after college relievers in the class, but the San Diego State product was stretched out over the winter in order to be the team’s Friday starter. He has performed even better than most could have expected, showing the ability to throw three pitches and adjusting easily to the role. A broken pinky on his pitching hand slowed him down for a few weeks, but presuming he picks up where he left off, Reed is likely a college arm moving up draft boards everywhere. Enhanced Scouting Report June 15, 2010 As Sale himself tells it, “My freshman year I really struggled. I was having trouble getting outs. There was a span where I was pitching good, but during mid-summer my fastball was really flat. I kind of hit the wall.” … “I was talking with some of the coaches there and they were saying you can’t keep doing the same thing you’re doing, you have to try something different,” Sale said. “So I dropped down and tried a different arm slot (a three-quarters delivery). I saw immediate results with it. It was night and day. My velocity went up, I got the most out of my change-up, and I got better with the slider.” … “What the change in arm angle did was create movement and sink on his pitches,“ Tollett said. “He had the belief now that he could get it done. I started putting him in situations where he could be successful, where he didn’t have to worry about results. Then I put him in some big ball games and started to see what his future could look like.” … “I’m stoked to start my career,” Sale said. “I know Ozzie Guillen is a crazy manager, but I feel like I’m really going to get along with this guy. He wouldn’t have that crazy reputation if he weren’t competitive like I am. I just want to be one of the main guys they depend on and eventually win the World Series, which is everything.” Morehead State graduate and former baseball player J.D. Ashbrook has signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox. Ashbrook has been assigned to Bristol Sox, Chicago’s rookie level (Appalachian League) farm team in Bristol, Va. He will join MSU teammate Drew Lee, who was drafted by the White Sox in the 12th round of the Major League Baseball draft last week. The Eagles’ leading hitter this past season, Ashbrook capped his career by hitting .432 with 82 hits, 69 runs (a mark that was in the top five nationally), 15 doubles, 18 home runs and 55 RBI. He led Morehead State and ranked in the top three in the Ohio Valley Conference in five offensive categories (batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs scored and home runs). He earned First Team All-OVC honors and was a Ping! Baseball Third Team All-American. June 14, 2010 Q: Which players drafted in the first or sandwich rounds will become their team’s No. 1 overall prospect as soon as they sign? A: … In fact, after the top three choices, I only see two more draftees who would immediately become their organization’s best prospect. I believe in Florida Gulf Coast lefthander Chris Sale’s (No. 13, White Sox) durability and ability to remain a starter, so I’d take him over Tyler Flowers and Dan Hudson with the White Sox. I have no worries about Arkansas third baseman Zack Cox’s (No. 25, Cardinals) power or ability to remain at the hot corner, so I’d choose him over Shelby Miller. However, both of those are close calls and there are a number of clubs that did have concerns about Sale and Cox. The Chris Sale pick was solid, but there is not a lot to like about the rest of the draft. I like Addison Reed and Rangel Ravelo looks like an interesting prospect, but I don’t see a great deal to get excited about. June 13, 2010 It’s rare that the Sox draft a high school middle infielder as high as the 11th round, but they’re making a serious effort to sign Chaparral (Ariz.) shortstop James McDonald. McDonald said that he’s not sure whether to start his professional career or fulfill a scholarship offer from Arizona State. “I’m weighing a few things right now,” McDonald said. McDonald recently graduated from the same school that produced Paul Konerko. Tampa trio signs: Three players drafted out of the University of Tampa signed with the White Sox: C Mike Blanke (14th round), 1B/DH Mike Schwartz (17th) and RHP Austin Evans (23rd), a former Chamberlain High standout. The Sox went back to Tampa to grab the Sunshine Conference Player of the Year. Schwartz was also a semifinalist for the Tino Martinez award, presented annually to the nation’s top Division-II player. He hit .415 and set a school record while leading the nation with 75 walks. So it only goes to figure he had an impressive OBP [.596]. Schwartz finished with 11 homers and 55 RBIs. Friday was a very special day for former East Burke baseball standout Ethan Icard. It was the day his dream of playing professional baseball came true. Icard, a 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher signed a deal with the Chicago White Sox on Friday evening. He will begin his professional career when he reports to the Bristol, Va. White Sox of the Rookie League on Wednesday. … Icard spent the last two seasons playing at Wilkes Community College. In 2010, he was 8-4 overall with a 4.14 ERA. In 87 innings, he struck out 93 batters. In 2009, Icard posted a 9-3 overall pitching record with a 3.40 ERA. He had 68 strikeouts in 79 innings pitched. June 11, 2010 The White Sox were known to be targeting college pitchers, and they picked four of them to start their draft. BA’s top-rated lefthander, slender strike-thrower LHP Chris Sale (1), fell to them at No. 13 overall. He had a 10-1 strikeout-walk ratio and could move quickly with his plus fastball and changeup and improved slider. He could be an absolute steal with a double-digit pick. RHPs Jacob Petricka (2), Addison Reed (3) and Thomas Royse (3s) give them three solid righthanded options, with Reed a potential fast riser if he moves back to a relief role. The position-player crop offers less upside, with hard-hitting junior-college 2B Joe Terry (8) and toolsy SS Tyler Saladino (7) the most intriguing prospects. 1) Chris Sale, LHP, Florida Gulf Coast University: No one expected Sale to fall this far, 13th overall. He’s a steal in this slot. Although his delivery is unconventional, he repeats it well and I’m not convinced that his injury risk is any higher than any other pitcher. 2) Jacob Petricka, RHP, Indiana State University: Raw before this year, Petricka improved his mechanics this year and got his fastball up to 98 MPH at times. He still needs refinement, but has a lot of potential as a relief arm. 3) Addison Reed, RHP,San Diego State: Very polished, Reed throws 89-92 as a starter but hit the mid-90s when used as a closer in ’09. He has a good slider and changeup. If used in rotation, he looks like a number three or four starter, but if he moves to the pen he could move very fast as a closer through the system. 3S) Thomas Royse, RHP, University of Louisville: Another polished arm, with a 90 MPH fastball and a workable slider and changeup. But Hollis does have what Simonds called a “plus-plus fastball” that runs in the 92-93 mph range. “In the minor leagues, the focus is a little more on development,” Simonds said. “In college, we have a limited number of games. “He’s got some good run on his fastball,” he said of Hollis. “If he picks up a couple miles on his fastball and picks up a second pitch, gets more consistency with his change-up or curve, who knows what will happen?” Hollis said he agrees that his “arm strength” is what attracted the scouts, “that and a little bit of athleticism.” Hollis said he has talked with a White Sox scout and is waiting for the contract papers in the mail. “I’m definitely signing, for sure,” he said. “Right now I’m just sitting back and being patient.”

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